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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 Shu-Ching Jean Chen, Forbes | 03.03.2014
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.02.2014
A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 03.01.2014
New studies are suggesting that doctors need to be more cautious when they release genetic information to patients.

A recent...
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.28.2014
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test...
By Patrick White, The Globe and Mail | 02.28.2014
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

Martin Luther King pioneered civil rights in America.

Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration...
By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 02.28.2014
A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that in California from 2009-2011...
By Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times | 02.27.2014
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless...
By Nam Hyun-woo, Korea Times | 02.27.2014
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld a suspended jail term of one year and six months for two years issued to...