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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 Karthika Muthukumaraswamy, The Huffington Post | 06.16.2015
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Up until recently, those in the technology industry and those conducting genomic research would have been considered strange...

By Renate Lindeman, Washington Post | 06.16.2015
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Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 06.15.2015

More than a decade after a young man committed suicide during a psychiatric clinical trial at the University of Minnesota—and...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.15.2015
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The crimes and misdemeanors of science used to be handled mostly in-house, with a private word at the...

By Jeannie Wurz, SwissInfo [Switzerland] | 06.14.2015
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About 62% (61.9%) of Swiss voters have said yes to genetic screening of embryos before implantation in a...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.14.2015

STANFORD -- In the 1990s, Stanford's Irv Weissman created a unique way to grow and deliver blood stem cells to...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 06.13.2015
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The dominant view of bioethics frames issues in terms of autonomy and individual rights. A retrospective in the...

By Andrew Chung, Reuters | 06.12.2015
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A U.S. appeals court said on Friday that the discovery of a new form of prenatal testing that...