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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 Dr Stuart Hogarth, BioNews | 11.18.2013
Last week saw the launch of the UK arm of the Personal Genome Project (PGP). This is the second major...
By Bruno Waterfield, Telegraph | 11.17.2013
Belgium needs a universal DNA database to fight crime with samples to be taken from every newborn baby or foreigner...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 11.17.2013
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist, is looking for a new world to conquer —...
By Shelby Capacio, Fox 9 | 11.17.2013
A petition drive is under way, calling on Gov. Mark Dayton to order an investigation of the University of Minnesota...
By Joshua Keating, Slate | 11.15.2013
Give the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee credit for unpredictability. All the signals sent out before this week’s highly-anticipated third...
By William A. Schambra, The New Atlantis | 11.15.2013
Philanthropy has many wonderful qualities — and never tires of proclaiming them, for one quality it sorely lacks is humility...
By Hispanic Business, Hispanic Business | 11.14.2013

ETC Group and Friends of the Earth are launching a public design and branding competition to shine a spotlight on...

By Kingsley Napley, Claire Wood and Katie Newbury, Lexology | 11.14.2013

The number of couples entering into surrogacy arrangements has been steadily rising in recent years, including gay couples keen to...