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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 Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 05.18.2015

More than 170 clinics across the country are selling experimental stem cell procedures for dozens of diseases and conditions —...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 05.18.2015

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to...

By Anne Schiff, The Jerusalem Post | 05.17.2015
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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to draw public attention to otherwise unconsidered problems.

The recent earthquakes in Nepal...

By Editorial, The Washington Examiner | 05.15.2015

Television actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé are tussling over what should happen to embryos they created through in vitro...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 05.14.2015

WASHINGTON — The federal government opened the door to a new era of genetic medicine on Thursday by introducing a...

By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman, Vox | 05.13.2015
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In his book Derailed, about his fall from academic grace, the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel explained his...

By Ryan Clarke and James Hyun, Tech Crunch | 05.13.2015

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Editor’s note: Ryan Clarke is a biochemistry PhD candidate...

By Jeantine Lunshof, Nature World View | 05.12.2015

Gene editing is a hot topic following a flurry of interest in the use of CRISPR tools to modify human...