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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 Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.27.2014
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“Selling Stem Cells Honestly” is the headline this week over at the Biopolitical Times, which also says...
By Kim Tingley, New York Times Magazine | 06.27.2014
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In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named...

By Jeffrey Shuren, FDA Voice | 06.26.2014
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We’ve come to recognize that almost every disease has a genetic component, and many consumers now are eager...

By RFI, RFI | 06.26.2014

France has the right to ban surrogate parenthood but not to refuse granting legal to parent-child relationships of children born...

By Jerome Batley jr, Associated Press | 06.26.2014
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In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Carolina operating room because she was having a...

By J.D. Tuccille, Reason | 06.26.2014
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The FBI's facial recognition database, into which it wants to put 52 million of our mugs by...

By Joyce Liptrap, Letter to the Editor, News Leader | 06.25.2014
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In light of the recent Virginia budget announcements, a little known omission to the original budget should be...

By Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist | 06.25.2014
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A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been...