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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 Nils Hoppe, BioNews | 03.30.2015
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One of the legally and ethically problematic issues regularly debated in the context of biobanks and tissue repositories...

By Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By Sheila Burke, Associated Press | 03.28.2015
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Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past...

By C. Simone Fishburn, BioCentury | 03.26.2015
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Once CRISPR catapulted gene editing to the forefront of DNA-based technology, it was only a matter of time...

By Misti Ault Anderson, The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 03.26.2015
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of...

By Beverly Merz, Harvard Health Blog | 03.26.2015
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President Obama’s announcement of a Precision Medicine Initiative was one of the few items in this year’s State...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 03.26.2015

Angelina Jolie Pitt's decision to have her ovaries surgically removed, which the actress and director detailed in The New York...

By Alexandra Witze, Nature | 03.26.2015

When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launches on a one-year mission to the International Space Station on 28 March, he will...