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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 Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR | 11.06.2013
Children who were conceived with in vitro fertilization have the same overall chance of developing childhood cancers as those conceived...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.05.2013
Fertility doctors in Beijing have begun testing a new method for genome analysis of human eggs before using them for...
By Jennifer Bleyer, Psychology Today | 11.04.2013
He's a 45-year-old divorced father of three, but Andrew lives for the text message he'll get from a woman announcing...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.04.2013
After spending months working on a series of stories about the trillions of friendly microbes that live in and on...
By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 11.04.2013
It's 2039, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are fresh off their win in Super Bowl LXXIII, their third straight championship victory...
By Coralie Colmez & Leila Schneps, Nautilus | 11.03.2013
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 11.03.2013
The California stem cell agency is nearing the end of its “normal” life span, and the topic of its future...
By Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, The New York Times | 11.01.2013
THE temporarily able-bodied, or TABs. That’s what disability activists call those who are not physically or mentally impaired. And they...