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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 Dara Mohammadi & Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.24.2016

Elizabeth Parrish is CEO of BioViva, a Seattle-based biotech company working to develop treatments to slow the ageing process...

By Yang Xi, Global Times | 07.24.2016

Zhang Wenyong, a 44-year-old father in Beijing, did a genetic test on his two daughters. His girls are only two...

By Daniel Bice, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | 07.24.2016

Jay Timmons and Rick Olson expected little legal trouble when they filed papers in Dane County Circuit Court last year...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 07.23.2016

WASHINGTON — Government scientists are seeking a million volunteers willing to share the innermost secrets of their genes and daily...

By Leah Campbell, Mom.me | 07.22.2016

In 2007, I became an egg donor for the first time. In 2009, I was diagnosed with Stage IV endometriosis...

By Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times | 07.22.2016

“Not everything in life is for sale, nor should it be.” 

That’s what California Gov. Jerry Brown said in 2013...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 07.21.2016

MONTECITO, Calif. — Even as she mourned the death of her 29-year-old husband from a rare genetic disorder, Sarah Robertson...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.21.2016

Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the...