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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 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 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...

By Helen Wallace, Epoch Times | 08.03.2014
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The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing...

By Ian Johnson and Cao Li, The New York Times | 08.02.2014
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WUHAN, China — In a small conference room overlooking this city’s smog-shrouded skyline, Huang Jinlai outlines his offer...

By Kathleen Kerr, Newsday | 08.01.2014
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Ted Tiller gets around his Huntington home in a wheelchair, battling a rare disease that has left him...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian [UK] | 07.31.2014
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Tens of thousands of NHS patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research as part...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.31.2014
Gammy, a six-month-old baby abandoned by his Australian parents, could die because his impoverished Thai surrogate mother cannot pay for...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.31.2014
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it would start regulating medical laboratory testing, saying that...

By Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic | 07.31.2014

The word "bank" typically refers to financial institutions, large and small, from the storefront where you go to cash your...