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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 Steven Rose, TES | 01.24.2014

Genes, intelligence and education: a heady brew of issues. Add class, race or gender, as has happened so many times...

By Joseph Goldstein, New York Times | 01.24.2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has identified nearly 170 profiles that probably...
By Steve Fry, Topeka Capital-Journal | 01.23.2014
A Topeka man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is the presumptive father to a baby one of the...
By Ursula Gauthier, Worldcrunch | 01.22.2014
BEIJING — When he was 17, Zhao Bowen was a bored student who made an audacious decision. In a country...
By Peter Moore, YouGov | 01.21.2014

In this YouGov/Huffington Post poll, the questions are:

Which comes closest to your opinion about scientific research on human, plant...

By Editorial, Nature | 01.21.2014

An article published on Nature’s website last week has created quite a buzz in South Korea. It details efforts...

By Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 01.21.2014
In the 1997 film GATTACA, a couple anxious to have a child sit down with their doctor. He shows them...
By Sean Poulter, Daily Mail (UK) | 01.20.2014
  • 38 British websites now offer home testing kits - which can cost up to £300
  • Paternity and genetic ancestry tests...