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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 Alan Zarembo, The Los Angeles Times | 09.16.2014

A new study bolsters the argument that fertility doctors should transfer just one embryo at a time when they are...

By Sean Sullivan, Washington Post | 09.15.2014
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Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce resigned as first vice chairman of the state Republican Party Sunday after...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.13.2014
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English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics...

By Alice Park, Time | 09.12.2014
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan surgically transplanted a sheet of retinal pigment cells...

By Cailin O’Connor, Slate | 09.11.2014
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Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 09.11.2014

New leaked e-mails showing the comments of referees for Science and Nature provide more insight into the saga of the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 09.10.2014

A Japanese patient with a debilitating eye disease is about to become the first person to be treated with induced...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2014
BERKELEY, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a measure aimed at easing conflicts of interest...