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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 David Rotman, MIT Technology Review | 10.21.2014

The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On...

By Elie Dolgin, Nature | 10.21.2014

Stacy Hodgkinson and Amy Lewin had the best of intentions when they enrolled the pregnant 15-year-old in their study. The...

By Sarah Knapton, Telegraph | 10.20.2014

Twins born through fertility treatment and their mothers are far more likely to suffer problems than single births, new studies...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 10.20.2014
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A segment of human intestine has been grown in laboratory mice for the first time as part of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.19.2014
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When Meg DeBoe decided to tap her Christmas fund to order a $99 consumer DNA test from 23andMe...

By Jemma Kennedy, The Guardian | 10.18.2014

Women, there’s a new perk in town. Last week, Apple joined ranks with Facebook in offering free egg-freezing to staff...

By SynBioWatch, SynBioWatch | 10.17.2014

PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA– In a unanimous decision of 194 countries, the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) today formally...

By Laura Sydell, NPR | 10.17.2014
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In the Silicon Valley arms race to lure the top talent with the best benefits, Facebook and Apple...