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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 Jeeg, Council for Responsible Genetics | 06.09.2014
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Background

The Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative (www.dnapolicyinitiative.org) is a civil society-led project which aims to set...

By Maurice Bernstein, Bioethics Discussion | 06.08.2014
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754  wrote "The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This...
By Pete Shanks | 06.06.2014

Over the past couple of months, there has been a cascade of proposals for — or at least discussions about...

By Jenny Graves, The Washington Post | 06.06.2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2014

Three-person IVF is a critical departure from the traditional kind. This new and biologically extreme technique, which has generated scientific...

By Emily Underwood, Science | 06.05.2014
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The price of President Barack Obama’s BRAIN may have just quadrupled. Last year, the White House unveiled a...

By Bettina Chang, Pacific Standard | 06.05.2014
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You’re familiar with the scene: A skeleton lies, inscrutable, on a table in a dimly lit medical examiner’s office...

By Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check | 06.04.2014
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This week, the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, the National Asian Pacific...