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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 Stuart A. Newman, The Huffington Post | 12.01.2014

The British Parliament appears poised to give the go-ahead to a set of techniques for generating infants which, if implemented...

By Dr. Ainsley Newson, BioNews | 12.01.2014
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Geneticist Razib Khan's decision to obtain the whole genome sequence of his partner's fetus in utero shows us...

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 12.01.2014
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Enzymes that don't exist in nature have been made from genetic material that doesn't exist in nature either...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 12.01.2014
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The great scientist James Watson is to auction his Nobel prize medal. He told the Financial Times...

By Amy Klein, Newsweek | 11.29.2014
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In 2004, Danielle Decrette went in for in vitro fertilization. It wasn’t her first time—she and her husband...

By AP, Associated Press in Bangkok | 11.28.2014

Thailand’s interim parliament has given initial approval to a bill banning commercial surrogacy, the practice of hiring a woman to...

By Ludwig Burger and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 11.26.2014
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(Reuters) - The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with...

By Iain Aitch, New Republic | 11.26.2014
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The most stirring art has the ability to make us stop, think, and even act, but a new...