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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 John Drescher, News & Observer | 04.17.2015
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John Railey was part of a team of reporters at the Winston-Salem Journal who in 2002 revealed the...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.15.2015
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In a legal maneuver with billion-dollar implications, the University of California has asked the U.S. Patent & Trademark...

By Richard Harris, National Public Radio | 04.15.2015
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It's becoming routine for cancer doctors to order a detailed genetic test of a patient's tumor to help...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 04.15.2015
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The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace...

By Max Gorynski, Shout Out UK | 04.14.2015
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The need for control is as strong in humans as the need for love and the need for...

By Silvia Camporesi, The Huffington Post | 04.14.2015
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"What are the moral implications of genome editing?" is the question that has been posed by...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 04.14.2015
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The state of California is launching a US$3-million precision-medicine project. The effort, announced on 14 April, will draw...

By Judith Ireland, Sydney Morning Herald | 04.14.2015
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Australian officials could do almost nothing to stop Australian parents from abandoning their baby son, born through surrogacy...