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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 Abigail Zuger, The New York Times | 02.16.2015
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I had intended to discuss President Obama’s plans for personalized precision medicine with my patient Barbara last week...

By Global Dispatch, Global Dispatch | 02.13.2015

The so-called “three-parent embryo” legislation that the United Kingdom’s House of Commons passed Feb. 3 likely breaches a European Union...

By Helia Ighani, Council on Foreign Relations | 02.13.2015
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Since 2001, major metropolitan cities have increasingly conducted gas and chemical attack simulations in subway systems. Police departments...

By Denise Balkissoon, The Globe and Mail | 02.12.2015
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For 2 1/2 years, Sara Karklins tried very, very hard to get pregnant. In the fall of 2010...

By Verónica Calderón, El Pais | 02.12.2015
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Luis Delgado and José Antonio Fernández, a gay married couple from Spain, decided to have a child via...

By Corine Lesnes, Le Monde | 02.12.2015
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S’il fallait résumer la philosophie transhumaniste d’une idée, la plus extrême mais aussi la plus saisissante, ce serait...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.12.2015

Since the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth in 1978 more than 5 million babies have been born using this...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 02.12.2015
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Solid scientific evidence can be crucial for solving crimes. But science may have been progressing too fast for...