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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 John Gillott, BioNews | 12.16.2013
The House of Commons Education Committee is currently investigating 'Underachievement in education of white working class children'. At a session...
By Russell Brandom, The Verge | 12.13.2013
How does a mother’s weight-loss surgery affect her child’s risk of obesity? It’s a question scientists have been struggling with...
By Steve Connor, Independent | 12.13.2013
Genes play a bigger role in educational achievement than teachers, schools or home environment, and the reason we know this...
By Science Daily, Science Daily | 12.12.2013

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 12.12.2013

Doctors, researchers and companies should expect to find information they were not looking for in genetic analyses, imaging scans and...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2013
A plan to finance the California stem cell agency after its $3 billion runs out in 2017 was shunted aside...
By Jane Wakefield, BBC News | 12.09.2013

Raymond McCauley may go blind as he gets older.

He knows this because when he had his genetic code read...

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.09.2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Obama administration are urging a federal appeals court to...