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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 Nick Stockton, Wired | 03.02.2015

For the last week, an Italian neurosurgeon has been executing a full-blown media offensive, talking up his plan to stitch...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 03.02.2015

Many of us would be delighted to contribute to medical advances. But handing over reams of our genetic, health and...

By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 03.02.2015
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You may have come across the story. 'Teenagers more likely to pass on genetic mutations to children,' reported...

By David Kravets, Ars Technica | 03.02.2015
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The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the conviction of a rapist whose prosecution rested on DNA swiped...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 03.01.2015
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Barely a week goes by without some dispiriting tale of racism seeping into the public consciousness: the endless...

By Stephanie Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.28.2015

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Wojcicki (pronounced wo-JIT-ski) made it her mission...

By John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2015
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With last week’s parliamentary vote, the U.K. is quickly moving ahead with plans to be the first...

By Gary Robertson, Reuters | 02.26.2015
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Virginia would pay the handful of survivors of a forced sterilization program $25,000 each in compensation under a...