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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 Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch | 04.28.2014

A new report commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron suggests that GMOs have now been shown to be safe and...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 04.25.2014

Happy DNA Day everyone. On this date in 1953, Nature published four articles on the structure of DNA, including the...

By Tanzina Vega, The New York Times | 04.25.2014
WASHINGTON — Like many single women, Heather Lawson hoped she would meet the right man with enough time to get...
By Svante Paabo, The New York Times | 04.24.2014
LEIPZIG, Germany — I NEVER met my paternal grandfather. He died of the Spanish flu in 1919 at the age...
By Daniel MacArthur and Chris Gunter, Genomes Unzipped | 04.24.2014

New DNA sequencing technologies are rapidly transforming the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases, but they also carry a risk: by...

By Eliza Barclay and Jeremy Bernfeld, NPR | 04.24.2014
The Green Mountain State is poised to become the first to require food companies to label products containing genetically modified...
By Susan Berke Fogel, Francine Coeytaux, Marcy Darnovsky, Lisa Ikemoto, and Judy Norsigian, RH Reality Check | 04.23.2014
It is troubling to see the vexing question of commercial surrogacy treated as a litmus test for feminists at RH...
By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 04.21.2014
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