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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 Ted Morrow, The Guardian | 07.22.2014
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Later this year, parliament is expected to debate a change to the law that would allow a reproductive...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 07.22.2014
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Britain's fertility regulator could allow doctors to create the first babies to have three people's DNA from next...

By Moyra Lang, Living Archives on Eugenics Blog | 07.21.2014

A Whisper Past: Childless after Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta by Leilani Muir

Leilani Muir, eugenic survivor, has written her biography...

By Amanda Wilson, Pacific Standard | 07.21.2014
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In a lot of ways, the people of Kannapolis, North Carolina, are lucky.

Eleven years ago, the community...

By Alex Ewen, Indian Country Today Media Network | 07.19.2014
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Archaeological discoveries in South America in the 1980s led to a revision in the timeline of the Bering...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 07.18.2014
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Anyone who cares about the advance of medical science and about the promise of biotechnology should be dismayed...

By Ian Haney López, Moyers & Company | 07.18.2014
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Writing recently in The New York Times, Thomas Edsall linked race, genes and political ideology. Edsall, a...

By Victoria Massie, GeneWatch | 07.17.2014

Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project...