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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 Beth Greenfield, Yahoo | 12.05.2014
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Ever heard of “gender disappointment”? Jayne and Jon Cornwill certainly have. It’s what drove the Australian couple to...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 12.04.2014

Rarely could I be described in a headline in The New York Times, which explains why I lingered over...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2014

Last month in San Francisco, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3...

By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 12.03.2014

A state appeals court decided unanimously Wednesday that California’s practice of taking DNA from people arrested for felonies -- though...

By Laura Hercher, The New York Times | 12.03.2014

To the Editor:

In “The Downside of Resilience” (Sunday Review, Nov. 30), Jay Belsky points to evidence that...

By Michelle Roberts and Paul Rincon, BBC | 12.02.2014
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A personal DNA test that has sparked controversy in the US has launched in the UK.

The UK's...

By Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC | 12.02.2014

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to...

By Ben A. Minteer, Center for Humans and Nature | 12.01.2014

The Center for Humans and Nature and The Hastings Center have partnered on a series called, How far should we...