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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

By Katie Worth, Fusion | 06.24.2015
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Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Nature Comment | 06.23.2015
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This year, several leading researchers have sounded warnings about the risks of using the CRISPR gene-editing technique to...

By Michael J. Joyner & Nigel Paneth, JAMA | 06.22.2015

Personalized or precision medicine maintains that medical care and public health will be radically transformed by prevention and treatment programs...

By Debora Spar, Marie Claire | 06.22.2015
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Nine years ago, when she was 28, TLC's Dare to Wear host, Tai Beauchamp, called off her engagement...

By Rachel Smolker, Truthout | 06.22.2015
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The new movie Jurassic World offers more than a few lessons relevant to the state of our world...

By Craig Holdrege, The Nature Institute | 06.22.2015
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In recent years scientists have developed powerful tools to create specific breaks in DNA sequences. They can then...