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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...

Two Q-tip swabs are vertically positioned next to each other. Blurred in the background, there is a container filled with other q-tips.
By Joel Winston, Medium | 05.17.2017

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the...

An illustrated graphic of a side-view of a human head. Their brain appears with six small double helix icons on the side.
By Parminder Deo and Jacqueline Paulis, NBC News | 05.17.2017

DNA is what makes us who we are. In humans, our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent similar to the person...

Portrait photo of Mildred Solomon
By Mildred Solomon, Hastings Center News | 05.16.2017

Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon delivered a keynote address at the Future of Medicine conference, a national health care conference...

Black and white graphic displaying DNA strands within tubes that are lined up.
By Matthew Brown, Associated Press | 05.16.2017

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely...

Interior of an empty courthouse, viewed in the perspective of any observer.
By Eli Rosenberg, New York Times | 05.16.2017

It has been about three months since Terrell Gills’s release from jail, and there are still sleepless nights and days...

Close up of a person in a white lab coat holding a test tube.
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 05.16.2017

He made the emotional plea to his colleagues: Pass this bill.

“It might give somebody like my wife a chance...

A purple gloved hand holds two mice.
By Tamar Lewin, New York Times | 05.16.2017

Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in...

Contents of DNA spit kit, revealing a bio specimen bag and a tube container
By Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.15.2017

A year and a half ago, few health insurers would cover a noninvasive prenatal test — which draws blood from...