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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 Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 06.04.2015

For the first time, scientists have discovered a mechanism in humans that could explain how your lifestyle choices may impact...

By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 06.04.2015
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To help their soldiers on the front, Nazi physicians sawed off the limbs of concentration camp prisoners and...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.03.2015
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The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in...

By Anastasia Moloney, Reuters | 06.03.2015
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole...

By Eric S. Lander, New England Journal of Medicine | 06.03.2015

Fifty years ago, microbiologists sparked the recombinant-DNA revolution with the discovery that bacteria have innate immune systems based on restriction...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 06.03.2015
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Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 06.03.2015
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Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab...

By Christopher Simmons, California Newswire | 06.03.2015
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A closely watched bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Glendale) to strengthen notice requirements for the storage of newborn...