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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 02.23.2015
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There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years...

By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 02.23.2015
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The United Kingdom’s House of Commons recently voted to amend the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 to...

By David Kravets, Ars Technica | 02.20.2015

Anybody who has watched a crime drama knows the trick. The cops need someone's DNA, but they don’t have a...

By BBC, BBC | 02.20.2015

Thailand has passed a law banning foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, after two high-profile cases sparked debate...

By Ricki Lewis, Medscsape | 02.20.2015
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On February 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.20.2015
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Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict...

By Marcus Woo, Wired | 02.19.2015
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When scientists sequenced the human genome a decade ago, they hoped to unlock the code of life, the...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.19.2015

Noah is a six-year-old suffering from a disorder without a name. This year, his physicians will begin sending his genetic...