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Topic: Biotech

Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety and the first-ever bred in Washington state, sit on the tree ready to be picked at an orchard in Wapato, Wash. The Cosmic Crisp, available beginning Dec. 1, is expected to be a game changer in the apple industry. Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Cosmic Crisp apple is not the future

Keith A. Spencer
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Organ-on-a-chip tech becoming reality

Max Levy
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. House Republican leaders want to shift more than $2 billion in Medicaid costs from upstate counties to the New York State government. The provision would help mostly Republican-controlled counties that have struggled to subsidize Medicaid payments for the poor. New York City wouldn’t get the same relief. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

What Chris Collins may have overshared

Jay Hancock, Emily Kopp, Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

What is genetic modification?

Jackie Grimm
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"Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart" by Mimi Swartz (Penguin Random House/Getty)

Is the heart "more than a pump"?

Nicole Karlis
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CRISPR crops don’t count as GMOs

Yi Li - The Conversation
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The dark side of genetic testing

Sarah Catherine Nelson - The Conversation
((Wikimedia/Richard Wheeler - Zephyris))

Billionaires are rushing into biotech

Josh Peters
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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

This is how the future will taste

Mary Mazzoni - Alternet
(WikiCommons)

Chinese scientists clone two monkeys

Nicole Karlis
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CRISPR controversy

Ian Haydon - The Conversation
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The bifurcation of humanity

Jeremy Lent - Alternet
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Science: Yep, it's the end

Émile P. Torres
Detailed Image of Stem Cells (Getty/Salon)

Space wombs for stem cells

Angelo Young
(AP/Seth Perlman)

Reynard Loki - Alternet
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1159799p1.html'>Zadorozhna Natalia</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
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Monsanto's scary new scheme

Lina Khan
(dk tazunoki/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Taro plants grow on the island of Kauai (Steve Heap/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
View overlooking the taro fields on Kauai, Hawaii. (Sarah Fields Photography/Flickr)

Lindsay Abrams
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Monsanto's growing monopoly

Kristina Hubbard
Anthrax (Wikimedia/CDC)

Natasha Lennard
(Shutterstock/ igor.stevanovic)

Natasha Lennard
Kidneys (via Wikipedia)

Alex Halperin
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