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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 Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 12.09.2013
In the wake of a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Salt Lake City-based...
By Marilynn Marchione, AP | 12.08.2013
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...
By USA Today, USA Today | 12.08.2013

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...

By Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post | 12.08.2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Growing national attention to the 20th-century practice of forcibly sterilizing thousands of Americans has put new pressure...
By BBC, BBC | 12.06.2013

The chances of a woman having a baby following IVF go "very rapidly downhill" from the age of 37, according...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 12.06.2013
Bowing to the Food and Drug Administration, the genetic testing service 23andMe said Thursday that it would stop providing consumers...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2013
The likely future of the $3 billion California stem cell agency was unveiled this week, and it envisions an enterprise...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.05.2013
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should refocus its oversight of gene-transfer research, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM)...