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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 Robert Pear, The New York Times | 01.24.2015
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President Obama will seek hundreds of millions of dollars for a new initiative to develop medical treatments tailored...

By Richard Rubin, Bloomberg | 01.22.2015
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The U.S. Tax Court rejected a California woman’s attempt to avoid taxes on the $20,000 she received when...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 01.22.2015
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With the pipeline of traditional drugs drying up, researchers are increasingly attempting to customize treatments based on a...

By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 01.22.2015

Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from...

By Reuters staff, Scientific American | 01.22.2015

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese health authorities on Wednesday described the gender imbalance among newborns as "the most serious and prolonged"...

By Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 01.21.2015
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The UK Government and Association of British Insurers (ABI) have agreed to extend their voluntary moratorium on the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.21.2015
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Could genetically modified bacteria escape from a laboratory or fermentation tank and cause disease or ecological destruction?

This...

By Laura Neergaard, Associated Press | 01.19.2015
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How your immune system does its job seems to depend more on your environment and the germs you...