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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 Donald G. McNeil, The New York Times | 09.24.2014
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The Obama administration on Wednesday issued new guidelines intended to strengthen the oversight of federally funded biology research...

By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 09.24.2014

The perseverance and scientific innovation of Dr. Mary Claire King, the geneticist whose efforts to identify the BRCA genes were...

By David Weisbrot, The Age | 09.23.2014
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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie recently created controversy by claiming in her first speech to Parliament that...

By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov | 09.23.2014
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The FBI is preparing to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government's massive new biometric identification database.

Developers...

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 09.23.2014
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Criminals including murderers and rapists could attempt to have their convictions overturned after the Home Office admitted that...

By Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2014
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An illicit surrogacy trade is burgeoning in the Chinese capital Beijing, where would-be parents can pay surrogate mothers...

By Thao Vi - An Dien, Thanh Nien News | 09.23.2014
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 “We are startled by the sex ratios at birth in some communes in the Red River Delta, which...
By Zócalo Public Square, Zócalo Public Square | 09.23.2014

How can we prevent these technologies from falling into the wrong hands?

Synthetic biology has been called “genetic engineering...