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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 Rachel Walden, Our Bodies, Our Blog | 10.28.2014
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Apple recently announced it was joining Facebook in covering costs for female employees who opt to freeze their eggs for...

By Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Wired | 10.24.2014
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A self-proclaimed geek friend once described Silicon Valley as a place where instead of going to the movies...

By Karen Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 10.24.2014
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James Collins, a synthetic biologist at Boston University, says he’s been able to print the ingredients for simple...

By Youkyung Lee, Associated Press | 10.24.2014
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The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by...

By Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph | 10.23.2014

Foreigners will be allowed to undergo controversial IVF treatment creating 'three-parent babies' in Britain if Parliament green-lights the treatment, a...

By Marcy Darnovsky, RH Reality Check | 10.23.2014

News about Silicon Valley’s egg-freezing perk has ignited many much-needed conversations about the tech industry’s family-unfriendly workplaces and policies that...

By Josh Dean, Bloomberg Businessweek | 10.22.2014
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Behind glass in a never-before-used operating room inside a just-built cabin at the end of a freshly paved...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 10.21.2014

A Polish man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a knife attack several years ago is now able...