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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 Edward Hockings and Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.10.2015
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With the UK launch of 23andMe’s home DNA testing kit, the legalisation of mitochondrial DNA transfer, and the...

By Govind Vijaykumar, The Asian Age | 03.08.2015
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Within a year, the world could see the first of what’s being described as the three-parent baby. And...

By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post | 03.06.2015
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Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 03.06.2015
Untitled Document Online ads for genetic cancer tests that promise to identify the best treatment “to kill your cancer” and...
By Kevin Boehnke, Science | 03.06.2015
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Throughout my science education, I have dutifully memorized facts: the stages of photosynthesis, the enzymes involved in the...

By Virginia Hughes, BuzzFeed | 03.05.2015
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Last May, when she was 10 weeks pregnant, Eunice Lee took a blood test to screen for diseases...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.05.2015
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If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know...

By CBC, CBC News | 03.05.2015

A Dalhousie University professor is discouraging career-minded women from freezing their eggs for lifestyle reasons, a practice known as 'social...