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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 08.08.2014
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More than 130 leading population geneticists have condemned a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could...

By Ian Birrell, The Guardian | 08.07.2014

I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then...

By Grant Peck and Kriten Gelineau, AP | 08.07.2014
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For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places like...

By Elie Dolgin, Nature Medicine | 08.06.2014
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Unregulated stem cell clinics are proliferating throughout the US. A case in point is the Cell Surgical Network...

By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times | 08.06.2014
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Mutations in a gene called PALB2 raise the risk of breast cancer in women by almost as much...

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | 08.05.2014
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Two American aid workers were gravely ill, fighting to survive infection with the deadly Ebola virus. A San...

By Gulzaar Barn, Practical Ethics | 08.05.2014
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Last month Lord Robert Winston delivered the Physiological Society summer lecture entitled, ‘Shall we be human in the...

By Karen Kaplan, L | 08.05.2014
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A Japanese scientist who played an instrumental role in two discredited studies about a new type of stem...