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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 Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.28.2014
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After five years the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has updated its guidelines for gamete donation in the...

By Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting | 09.26.2014
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Cynthia Chandler, co-founder of the Oakland, California-based prisoner rights group Justice Now, is not usually short on words...

By Jamie Davies, Aeon | 09.26.2014
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Here is a remarkable fact about identical twins: they have the same DNA, and therefore the same ‘genetic...

By Jo Tuckman, The Guardian | 09.25.2014
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Five days after her caesarean section, Nancy boarded a night bus in the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa...

By Emily Anthes, Bloomberg Businessweek | 09.25.2014
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Over the past decade, Kaiser Permanente has spent more than $4 billion building the world’s largest private-sector collection of...

By George Estreich, Salon | 09.25.2014
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Last month, Richard Dawkins offered this tweet about a hypothetical fetus with Down syndrome: “Abort it and try...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 09.25.2014

Science writer David Dobbs has definitively described the voracious appetite of the "selfish gene" meme, pointing out that the notion...

By News Medical, News Medical | 09.25.2014

A clinical trial led by UC San Francisco has found that when pregnant women are educated about their choices on...