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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 Robert Pear, The New York Times | 11.23.2015
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WASHINGTON — Inaccurate and unreliable medical tests are prompting abortions, promoting unnecessary surgeries, putting tens of thousands of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.23.2015
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The students in Anthony James’s basement insectary at the University of California, Irvine, knew they’d broken the laws...

By Debora Spar, Fortune | 11.21.2015
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There’s something funny about the U.S. market for eggs. No, not the kind that spring from chickens and...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 11.20.2015
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DNA can tell us all kinds of things.

Genetic information can be used to uniquely identify a specific...

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 11.20.2015
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Lost in the news about the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of genetically engineered salmon on Thursday...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 11.19.2015
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On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite...

By Andy Newman, The New York Times | 11.19.2015
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In the first decision in California to address a dispute over the fate of frozen embryos after a...

By Liz Stinson, WIRED | 11.18.2015
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“Here. Smell this.”

Effendi Leonard smiles and pushes a vial of pale, cloudy liquid toward me, like a...