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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 Justine Griffin, Sarasota Herald-Tribune | 05.25.2014

Editor's note: Inspired to act by a childhood loss, Sarasota Herald-Tribune staff writer Justine Griffin became an egg donor and...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 05.23.2014
An important question in contemporary bioethics concerns the role of genetic and neurobiological determinism in crime. What role do genes...
By John Farrell, Forbes | 05.23.2014
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One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the...

By Rachel Glaser, WHAM TV | 05.23.2014

Rochester, N.Y. -- People who undergo increasingly popular genetic testing could be penalized, forced to pay higher premiums or denied...

By Dana Perls, Food and Technology Blog | 05.22.2014

Two Mondays ago, I sat in a room of some of the most powerful agribusiness, food and synthetic biology companies...

By Steven Brown and Mary McElroy, Providence Journal | 05.22.2014

The presumption of innocence lies at the heart of our system of criminal justice, but a bill that will soon...

By Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic | 05.21.2014
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Forty years ago, there was exactly one way for humans to reproduce. A man’s sperm would combine with...

By Andy Thompson, Post-Crescent Media | 05.20.2014
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Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure...