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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...

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By Zoë Beery, The Outline | 07.25.2017

Coerced sterilizations are a shade away from eugenics.

Last Thursday, Tennessee judge Sam Benningfield was suddenly inundated with accusations of...

In a dark background, a human finger touches the glowing screen from a smartphone.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 07.24.2017

Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it

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An African Americna male patient looks carefully at a needle injected by a white researcher.
By William Bender, Philly News | 07.20.2017

Hundreds of black men were tricked into volunteering as human guinea pigs. For 40 years, no one stepped in to...

A laboratory scientist's right arm is shown, using a multi-channel pipette.
By Carrie Arnold, Mosaic Science | 07.18.2017

Bringing genetics into medicine leads to more accuracy, better diagnosis and personalised treatment – but not for all. Carrie Arnold meets

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By The Inquiry, BBC [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.16.2017

"This structure has novel features, which are of considerable biological interest." It was perhaps the greatest understatement of all time...

A pile of cotton swabs.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.14.2017

The premise behind Yes or No Genomics is simple: Genetic disease is typically caused by a variation in at least...

Animated black and white photo of a man on top of a galloping horse.
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 07.13.2017

You might call it the smallest movie ever made.

This week, a team of scientists report that they have successfully...

A strand of DNA is featured. The upper right corner is highlighted.
By Matthew Cobb, New York Review of Books | 07.13.2017

In recent years, two new genetic technologies have started a scientific and medical revolution. One, relatively well known, is the...