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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 Marcy Darnovsky; Jessica Cussins, Medical Laboratory Observer | 03.10.2014

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing gained notoriety in the autumn of 2008. That was when two prestigious publications, The New Yorker...

By Elizabeth M. Meade, The Morning Call | 03.10.2014
A recent New York Times article (Feb. 25) on a new fertility procedure that involves using the genetic material of...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 03.10.2014
It was a genuine “where's the beef” session for California's nearly 10-year-old, $3 billion state stem cell agency.

A member...
By Louise Kinross, Bloom | 03.06.2014
It’s on the list.

My son’s rare genetic deletion is on the list of disorders identified by microarray analysis...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 03.06.2014
My feed is full of stories about “three-parent babies” and whether they are a eugenic threat. Predictably, Art Caplan, the...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 03.06.2014
In an effort to bring clarity to one of the most controversial and confusing scientific findings in recent memory...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.06.2014
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon jump from the thousands to the millions. But a recently established high-profile...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 03.05.2014

The idea of genetically altering people’s cells to make them resist the virus that causes AIDS may seem like a...