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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...

Lab scientist hand is shown, holding a glowing petri dish.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 08.24.2016

Here’s another layer of confusion to add to the uncertainty of going through IVF. The type of liquid a...

Two cancer cells are merged together.
By Meghana Keshavan, STAT | 08.23.2016

Soon after she received the treatment, Karen Koehler’s brain swelled. Her blood pressure plummeted. As she fell into a coma...

An image from Earth in space.
By Joseph Neighbor, VICE Motherboard | 08.23.2016

This December, the signatory nations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will meet, as they do every five years, to...

Illustrated drawing of an athletic female runner.
By South China Morning Post, South China Morning Post | 08.23.2016

At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what...

An individual holds a DNA model, with a concentrated face as if studying it.
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 08.22.2016

Harvard geneticist George Church is convinced everyone should have his or her genomes sequenced. Such tests would reveal the rare...

The picture is focused on a wooden chess game, with an individual in the background.
By Doug Hill, Boston Globe | 08.21.2016

America's relationship with technology has always been marked by excitement with an undercurrent of unease. We’re exhilarated by the powers granted...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.19.2016
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Visitors to the website of StemGenex, a La Jolla medical group, could be forgiven for thinking that...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.18.2016
Untitled Document Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists...