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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 Harriet Meyer, The Guardian | 10.24.2015
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Women in their late 30s and in their 40s are being given false hope that freezing their eggs...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 10.23.2015
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The Akimel O’odham (Pima), a group of Native Americans from Arizona, have one of the highest rates of...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.21.2015
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The genetic testing company 23andMe became a Silicon Valley sensation by providing consumers with health and ancestry information...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 10.21.2015
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Individuals hoping to learn about their lineage or see how closely related they are to Neanderthals aren’t the...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 10.20.2015
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The consumer genome. You’ll hear that phrase enough the next couple years that it will gain both the...

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Nature News | 10.20.2015
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The sun has been pale for months here in Sumatra and the skies are grey all day —...

By Katie Worth, PBS Frontline | 10.19.2015
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When Muna Guled, her husband and youngest daughter were granted refugee status in America two-and-a-half years ago, their...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.19.2015
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Man’s best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project.

Scientists in China say they are the first...