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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 David Tenenbaum, University of Wisconsin-Madison News | 03.24.2014
Desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous clinics offering untested and risky stem cell treatments, says UW-Madison law and bioethics...
By Leigh Turner, Impact Ethics | 03.24.2014
Last week, Kirstin Borgerson, a philosopher at Dalhousie University, published a thoughtful commentary on my colleague Carl Elliott’s persistent call...
By Calvin Trice, News Leader | 03.23.2014
Lewis Reynolds served for 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, during which he fought in the Korean and Vietnam...
By Paul Martin, Salon | 03.23.2014
Growing up in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 1900s, young Carrie Buck impressed those she met as serious and self-possessed...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 03.22.2014
We are heading toward a slippery slope. The United Kingdom is moving closer to allowing scientists to create genetically modified...
By Debesh Banerjee, The Indian Express | 03.21.2014
Twenty-four-year-old Vimlesh Devi has been a surrogate mother for two years. A mother of three and a homemaker, she lives...
By AP, Associated Press | 03.20.2014

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld California's law requiring people arrested for felonies to submit samples of their DNA...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 03.20.2014
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face...