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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...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.28.2016

Health regulators in the United States are talked about as the best in the world, but a new study on...

By Natalie Schreyer, Mother Jones | 07.28.2016

The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a...

By Editorial, New Scientist | 07.27.2016

THERE’S a certain breed of techno-optimist who likes to talk about “the singularity” – a time when technology progresses so...

By Express News Service, The New Indian Express | 07.27.2016

KOCHI: IN a first in India, doctors used Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), a process of genetic profiling of embryos prior...

By Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal Daily News | 07.27.2016

A same-sex married couple who hoped to become parents of a third child with the help of a surrogate mother...

By Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post | 07.27.2016

This was the year the government was going to start helping injured veterans and members of the military maintain their...

By Daphne Martschenko, The Conversation | 07.26.2016

Researchers at King’s College London say they are able to predict educational achievement from DNA alone. Using a new type...

By Kaleigh Rogers, VICE Motherboard | 07.26.2016

Learning about the genetic markers stored in your DNA can be an illuminating experience, even a life-altering one. Now...