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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 Catherine Shanahan, The Irish Examiner | 03.04.2016

More than 80 children were born abroad as a result of surrogacy arrangements for Irish parents since 2011, according to...

By Adam Johnson, AlterNet | 03.04.2016

Last week the screenwriter for the 2006 satirical science fiction comedy Idiocracy came out and said his film’s nightmare vision...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 03.03.2016

Veritas Genetics, a Boston-based biotech company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, is claiming it can now sequence your entire...

By Gordon Atherley, Voice America | 03.01.2016

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Dr. Marcy Darnovsky is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/. She describes...

By Greg Miller, The Atlantic | 03.01.2016

The crime was brutal. On November 4, 1989, after a night of heavy drinking, David Scott Detrich and a male...

By Stuart Newman, HuffPost Science | 02.29.2016

New genetic technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and synthetic biology are leading us to entirely new definitions of disease. Now...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 02.29.2016

“Welcome back, you two,” says assistant FBI director to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. He unlocks the door to Mulder’s...

By Mary Ann Mason, Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.29.2016

This past fall, I gave a talk on work-and-family issues to a class of female students in the M.B.A. program...