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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 Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 01.19.2014

Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients – including mental health...

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 01.19.2014

Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients – including mental health...

By Francie Latour, Boston Globe | 01.19.2014
IN MARTIN LUTHER King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, he yearned for a time when Americans would “not...
By Pankaj Mehta, Jacobin | 01.18.2014

If you want to understand why humans wage wars, there is a gene for that. Want to understand why men...

By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times | 01.18.2014
MORE than a decade into the 21st century, we would like to think that American parents have similar standards and...
By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 01.17.2014
When the FDA shut down biotech company 23andMe’s direct-to-consumer Personal Genome Service, many in the biotech community worried that the...
By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 01.17.2014

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test that can help diagnose mental disabilities...

By Marge Berer, RH Reality Check | 01.16.2014
If you are concerned about gender discrimination – that is, discrimination against girls and women – what would you do...