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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 Pallab Ghosh, BBC News | 05.27.2013
Five seriously disabled stroke patients have shown small signs of recovery following the injection of stem cells into their brain...
By Editorial, The Sacramento Bee | 05.25.2013

 With a new chairman, Jonathan Thomas, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine claims it has turned a page. Thomas has...

By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 05.25.2013
A fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects of...
By Miriam Zoll, Slate | 05.24.2013
In her recent Slate article, “I Should Have Frozen My Eggs,” Amy Klein, who is currently in her...
By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
By Merlin Chowkwanyun, The Atlantic | 05.23.2013

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which...

By David Cyranoski & Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 05.23.2013
A blockbuster paper that reported the creation of human stem-cell lines through cloning has come under fire. An anonymous online...