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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 Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Time | 04.16.2014

Remember the days when getting pregnant with twins was a surprise? Now if you’re undergoing fertility treatment, you actually have...

By Susan Young Rojahn, MIT Technology Review | 04.16.2014
One of the most important genetic technologies developed in recent years is now patented, and researchers are wondering what they...
By Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press | 04.15.2014
WASHINGTON -- A high-tech screening tool for cervical cancer is facing pushback from more than a dozen patient groups, who...
By Sharon Moalem, Medium | 04.15.2014
I was recently on a flight back to New York from London and was sitting one row away from Daniel...
By ABC, ABC | 04.15.2014

As more than 800 million Indians go to the polls this month, the main political party candidates are being urged...

By Matt McCall, The Columbia Chronicle | 04.14.2014
When I was 7 years old, my father told me I was conceived through an anonymous sperm donation.

As he...
By Jeremy Gruber, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 04.14.2014
It’s now over a dozen years since the mapping of the human genome was completed, and the pace of discovery...
By Christopher Bucktin, Mirror | 04.12.2014
As she plays in the San Francisco surf, Lou Hawthorne’s mongrel dog Mira looks just likes any other.

Part Husky...