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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 Tom Ashbrook, On Point | 04.28.2015

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New report out of China, with potential implications for the rest of human history. Human nature...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine | 04.28.2015
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The journal that days ago published the first-ever paper on an attempt to genetically modify human embryos has...

By John Sotos, Wall Street Journal | 04.28.2015
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Think of all the trouble that computer hackers cause. Now imagine what DNA hackers could do.

In the...

By Debra Kamin, Time | 04.28.2015
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An Israeli Boeing-747 returned from Nepal to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and among its...

By H. Gilbert Welch and Wylie Burke, Los Angeles Times | 04.27.2015
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President Obama proposes to plunk down $215 million on "precision medicine," and the National Institutes of Health and...

By Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post | 04.27.2015
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One of the national organizations that govern DNA laboratories has ordered the District’s new crime lab to immediately...

By Oscar Quine, The Independent | 04.26.2015

London – Police forces across the UK are testing technology that allows officers to analyse DNA samples in custody suites, amid...

By Society for Developmental Biology, Society for Developmental Biology | 04.24.2015

The Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the Editors of its official journal Developmental Biology...