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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 John Markoff, The New York Times | 05.09.2014
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When does a scientific conference warrant the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and...

By Jack Stilgoe, The Guardian | 05.08.2014
The Inter-Academy Panel, a network of the world’s science academies including our own Royal Society, today issued a statement...
By Susan Decker, Bloomberg | 05.08.2014

The Scottish scientists famous for concocting “Dolly” the sheep lost a bid to get U.S. patent protection for the cloned...

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.08.2014

No genetic test is needed to predict a bright future for Counsyl.

Armed with $28 million in new venture capital, the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.07.2014

Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an...

By Helen Chernikoff, The Jewish Week | 05.07.2014
‘Give me children or I shall die,” said Rachel to her husband Jacob, speaking for many women of the Bible...
By Nancy Fliesler, Vector | 05.05.2014

Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a “cease and desist” order to 23andMe, a major purveyor of...

By Mario Ledwith and Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail | 05.05.2014
Breakthroughs in IVF could ‘threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned.

The fertility...