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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 Caroline Cooper, Adam May and Anna Christiansen, Al Jazeera America | 05.15.2014
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Jonah Winn-Lenetsky and Chris Pommier have wanted children ever since they started dating in college more than a...

By Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica | 05.14.2014

On Tuesday, an Alaska man became the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the makers of Family...

By Amy Gutmann, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 05.14.2014

Neurological conditions—which include dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury—affect as many as one billion people...

By Ben Minteer, Nature World View | 05.14.2014

The North American sky, according to historical accounts, was once black with passenger pigeons. Hunters, however, saw to it that...

By Eric Hal Schwartz, In The Capital | 05.13.2014

Any medical advance always brings along con men hoping to exploit the news with useless or even dangerous "medicine" of...

By Agustín Fuentes, Psychology Today | 05.13.2014
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On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science...

By Jonathan Marks, In These Times | 05.12.2014
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Americans reject aspects of science—vaccinations, anthropogenic climate change, evolution—for diverse reasons. Sometimes those reasons are religious, sometimes economic...

By Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald | 05.11.2014
Fertility clinics will be forced to hand over information about anonymous sperm donors so children can learn about their genetic...