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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 MetroNews, MetroNews [Canada] | 06.12.2015

It was a bittersweet day for forensic science in 1998, when retired Quebec Court Justice Fred Kaufman released his report...

By Ari Shapiro, NPR | 06.11.2015
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In the U.S., surrogate parenting is widely accepted. Although no official figures exist, experts believe perhaps a thousand...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.11.2015
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California’s $3 billion stem cell agency has called a high-level meeting for next fall to examine a "red-hot"...
By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo | 06.10.2015
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Twenty five years ago, Michael Crichton captured our imaginations with the crazy idea that scientists might one day...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 06.10.2015
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When Geoffrey Ling talks about the future of technology, his ideas go flying around the room like a...

By Loretta Houlahan, The Age [Australia] | 06.10.2015
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In a departure  from the usual IVF miracle baby stories, much attention has been devoted recently to IVF...

By Alexandra Harney and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 06.09.2015
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Years of pouring money into its laboratories, wooing scientists home from overseas and urging researchers to publish and...

By Margaret Somerville, The Globe and Mail | 06.08.2015
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The human germline is the genetic essence of human life. It’s the genes passed on from generation to...