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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 05.11.2015

Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone...

By Nikhil Swaminathan, Aljazeera America | 05.11.2015
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In late January, President Barack Obama announced what some have called a moonshot.

The $215 million Precision Medicine...

By Dr Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 05.11.2015
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The short article by Robin Lovell-Badge entitled 'Editing human embryos' (see BioNews 799) addressing the work of...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.09.2015

Will the University of California reap the financial rewards of CRISPR's commercial use, likely worth billions of dollars? That's the...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 05.08.2015

A new rumor is spreading that Apple may be leveraging its ubiquity to encourage iPhone owners to participate in DNA...

By Rafael Romo, CNN | 05.08.2015

(CNN)An American couple who say they have been stuck in Mexico for weeks because officials there won't provide a birth...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.07.2015
Here's something that might sound strange: There are companies now that print and sell DNA.

This trend — which uses...