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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 Kate Douglas, New Scientist | 07.14.2014
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Are some fields of scientific exploration so incendiary they should be fenced off and labelled "Keep out"?

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By Jacques Delors and Lionel Jospin, Libération | 07.13.2014
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In February 2013, you made a formal commitment against the...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 07.12.2014

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk celebrated Nikola Tesla’s birthday this week with a US$1 million donation to set up a Tesla...

By Beth Garbitelli, Portland Press Herald | 07.12.2014
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MONTPELIER, Vt. —The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can’t collect DNA from suspects in criminal...

By Zelda Bronstein, 48 Hills | 07.11.2014

In recent weeks 48 hills has revealed that the Planning Department’s lax enforcement of San Francisco’s zoning laws has allowed...

By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post | 07.11.2014
I’m not betting on it, but if, by some miracle, Argentine winger Angel Di Maria is on the pitch against...
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | 07.10.2014

OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog is urging insurance companies and others to stop asking for access to the results of existing genetic...
By Dan Koboldt, MassGenomics | 07.10.2014

I first started MassGenomics in the early days of next-gen sequencing, when Illumina was called “Solexa” and came in fragment-end...