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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 Shane Bauer, Mother Jones | 11.20.2014
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Robert Schueren shook my hand firmly, handed me his business card, and flipped it over, revealing a short...

By RT, Russia Today | 11.19.2014

MPs from the populist nationalist party LDPR have prepared and drafted a motion requiring universal fingerprinting and DNA profiling of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2014
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Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 11.19.2014
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Hiding negative results and harmful side effects that occur in clinical trials would become harder in the United...

By William Wolfe-Wylie, Canada.com | 11.18.2014
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Even a decade ago, the idea of genetic discrimination sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s a reality Canadian law...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 11.18.2014
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Geneticists have a dirty little secret. More than a decade after the official completion of the Human Genome...

By Cath Becker and Suzan Clarke, Good Morning America | 11.18.2014
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Researchers at UCLA announced today that they had cured 18 children who were born with the so-called Bubble...

By The Philippine Star, The Philippine Star | 11.17.2014

MANILA, Philippines - Recent years have seen a boom in the number of stem cell clinics opening to the public...