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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 Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 06.11.2014
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A Canadian court made headlines this month when it decided, as a preliminary matter, that human tissue removed...

By Kayt Sukel, BioTechniques | 06.11.2014
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Open any basic biology textbook and you’ll find a similar description of mitochondria, the small ovoid organelles found...

By Josie Glausiusz, Nature | 06.11.2014
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On 23 April 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was ten years old...

By Josie Glausiusz, Nature News & Comment | 06.11.2014
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On 23 April 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was ten years old...

By Rana Dajani, Nature | 06.11.2014
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In January, Jordan passed a law to control research and therapy using human stem cells derived from embryos...

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 06.11.2014

Nine days before death row inmate Earl Washington’s scheduled execution, his lawyers informed the state of Virginia that it was...

By Adam Frank, NPR Blog | 06.10.2014
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We have a problem. It's a big one that raises big challenges for the human future and the...

By Pete Shanks, The Huffington Post | 06.09.2014

Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History has been out for a month, and the fuss...