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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 Daniel Cossins, The Scientist | 10.01.2014

Sometimes even the best-known stories have hidden subplots. This January, Nature published two papers describing an astonishing new way...

By Tim Cushing, TechDirt | 09.30.2014
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The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database has been discussed here several times, thanks to its "expeditious" blend...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 09.30.2014
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THE ERA OF direct-to-consumer genetic testing means that anyone can pay $99, spit into a plastic vial, and...

By Robin Marantz Henig, Slate | 09.30.2014
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The cocktail party at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo could have been a networking event for...

By Chad Terhune, Noam N. Levey, Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times | 09.30.2014
Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5...
By Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week | 09.30.2014

It's hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. Or that it never really left us.

When...

By Robert Cook-Deegan, Genomics Law Report | 09.30.2014

On September 5, the Federal Court of Australia (the appeals court) upheld a claim on isolated DNA from the BRCA1...

By Natasha Robinson, The Australian | 09.29.2014
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IN inner-city Sydney, a man in his 50s answers an unexpected knock at the front door. It’s the...