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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 Marcy Darnovsky, Nature | 07.09.2013

The UK government’s recent move towards human trials of mitochondrial-replacement techniques has prompted intense interest among scientists and bioethicists, while...

By Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer | 07.08.2013

The N.C. legislature is still attracting attention for all the wrong reasons – last week, it was stealth Senate approval...

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 07.08.2013
Connor, a healthy baby boy, has made history. He is the first child to be born after his parents had...
By Melanie Smallman and Simon Lock, The Guardian | 07.08.2013
In last week's blog piece "The public don't want to be involved in science policy" Hannah Baker used...
By Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting | 07.07.2013
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.07.2013
The California stem cell agency is moving to remove an absolute ban on use of stem cell lines derived from...
By Fiona MacDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.06.2013
If things had gone a bit differently, neurocriminologist Adrian Raine could easily have been a murderer, or a rapist –...
By Genevra Pittman, Reuters | 07.04.2013
Researchers looked at a database maintained by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) and found the proportion of cycles...