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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 Science Daily, Science Daily | 10.12.2013

Oct. 12, 2013 — New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that the tiny proportion of a cell's...

By Zoë Corbyn, The Guardian | 10.12.2013
Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and – gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 10.12.2013
In recent years Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has written extensively about the neuro-enhancement of human relationships. In a number of...
By Kieran Campbell, news.com.au | 10.10.2013
AUSTRALIAN parents who want to choose the gender of their children have been locked into expensive overseas treatments after a...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.09.2013
BURLINGAME, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today mulled over a recommendation that they focus intensely on...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 10.09.2013

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The federal government is considering whether to allow scientists to...

By Jill Werman Harris, New York Times | 10.07.2013
When Tracy Dunbrook, a bioethicist in Sherman, Conn., tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, she was told she had...
By Lauran Neergard, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 10.07.2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Little Amelia Sloan became a pioneer shortly after her birth.

The healthy baby is part of a...