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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 Carolyn Y. Johnson & Brady Dennis, The Washington Post | 11.11.2015
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For most of her life, Allison Corona lived in a world dimmed by bad genetic luck. A disease...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 11.11.2015
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Theranos isn’t alone in avoiding regulation using an easily exploited loophole — in fact, it’s just one among...

By Elizabeth Alter, The New York Times | 11.10.2015
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THERE are four locked doors guarding a specialized lab at the Harvard School...

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 11.09.2015
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to privately held gene testing company DNA4Life over the...

By David Barrett, The Telegraph | 11.08.2015
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British police risk being overwhelmed with DNA and fingerprint requests from European Union countries if MPs decide to...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.06.2015
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An intense debate has flared over whether the federal government should fund research that creates partly human creatures...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 11.06.2015
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It’s the latest hope offered to many patients at major cancer research centers: Let us sequence your tumor...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 11.06.2015
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On 11 August 2014, an anonymous user of a popular infertility forum typed a message. “I am 47...