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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...

Portrait of Mitalipov
By David Wagner, KPBS | 11.10.2016

A team of researchers including scientists from San Diego have developed a new approach to in vitro fertilization that combines...

Black and white screenshot of a scene in the documentary The Power of 504, which highlights a victory in disability justice (reflected in Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act). Protesters advocate for the civil rights of people with disabilities. Some hold signs stating "Our biggest handicap is [HEW Secretary Joseph] Califano!" Caption reads "Sign or resign!"
By Ari Ne'eman, Vox | 11.09.2016

It’s the early hours of Wednesday morning, and I’m watching my friends fear for their lives on Twitter. We’ve just...

A patient's arm is getting blood drawn out.
By Shivani Nazareth, US News & World Report | 11.07.2016

A recent study noted racial bias in the genetic databases that are important to furthering research in precision medicine...

DNA Microarray
By The 180 with Jim Brown, CBC Radio | 11.06.2016

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So you send your DNA off to an ancestry company, and get a report back that says you're...

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By Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica | 11.04.2016

Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, New York, police tried to pull over a car driving without...

DNA agarose gel on a UV lightbox
By Taunya English, The Pulse, Newsworks | 11.04.2016

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Often we think research and medicine are above the fray, but in an...

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By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 11.04.2016

Bangkok: Cambodia has moved to shut down its booming commercial surrogacy industry that has attracted several dozen Australian couples seeking to...

Side by side portraits of 2016 Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
By C.U.N.Y. Graduate School of Journalism, Scientific American | 11.03.2016

Plenty of sex, lies and videotape, but silence on pressing science policy issues from the presidential aspirants

In this election...