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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 John Markoff, The New York Times | 01.05.2015
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MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Ann Lam delicately places a laboratory slide holding a slice of brain from a...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.03.2015
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Turning 10 years old may not quite mark adolescence for a human child, but for a major government...

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.03.2015
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In Austen Heinz’s vision of the future, customers tinker with the genetic codes of plants and animals and...

By The Guardian , The Guardian | 01.01.2015

Most cases of cancer are largely the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or inherited genes, new...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.30.2014
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The year in biotechnology began with a landmark event. A decade after the first human genome was decoded...

By Editorial, Nature | 12.30.2014

Physics, chemistry, biology and the environmental sciences can deliver wonderful solutions to some of the challenges facing individuals and societies...

By Jennifer J. Kulynych and Hank Greely, Slate | 12.30.2014
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Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end...

By John Kass, Chicago Tribune | 12.27.2014
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Jayne and Jon Cornwill, an Australian couple, recently came to America with a bit of trouble.

The trouble...