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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 David Cyranoski, Nature News | 12.10.2014
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Eggs and sperm do it when they combine to make an embryo. John Gurdon did it in the...

By David McNamee, Medical News Today | 12.10.2014
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Last week, it was announced that the Google-associated home DNA screening kit, 23andMe will be launched in the...

By Christine Rosen, Slate | 12.10.2014
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If Silicon Valley has anything like a coherent philosophy, it is summed up in the idea that the...

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 12.10.2014

Money and deals are flowing into companies that promise to edit genes. Human, animal, plant, all kinds of DNA may...

By Editorial, Nature | 12.09.2014

The most important resource needed to conduct research on humans, it is said, is not brainpower or money: it is...

By Sophie Scott, ABC.au [Australia] | 12.08.2014
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Experts are warning Australians to be extremely careful when ordering genetic tests online, saying the tests may not...

By Alana Semuels, The Atlantic | 12.08.2014
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Dawn Pieke’s relationship imploded just before she reached 40. Pieke had a miscarriage and shortly after, her boyfriend...
By John Galloway, BioNews | 12.08.2014
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Although the word was not actually used (or at least I did not hear it), this was a...