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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 Ahn Mi-Young and Dennis Normile, Science Insider | 02.10.2015
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The scientist who once fraudulently claimed to have created embryonic stem cells matched to human patients and the...

By Luke Timmerman, Forbes | 02.09.2015
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There’s a reason you can’t donate a kidney or bone marrow to just anybody. Each person’s immune system...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jessica Cussins, Los Angeles Times | 02.08.2015

Britain is about to become the only country in the world to explicitly allow the inheritable genetic modification of humans...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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Older women trying for a baby could soon be offered the IVF technique of so-called “three-parent” embryos that...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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It may seem strange that an expert in cloning – the man who produced the first clones of...

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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April Gore wants to be a mother. She just doesn’t know when. But once she’s ready, the 28-year-old...

By Jacqueline Nelson, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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Somewhere between calls to “break the glass ceiling” and the war cry to “have it all,” working women...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.07.2015
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A Nuffield Council review of the British Government’s ‘care.data’ scheme has found that the existing privacy framework needs...