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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 Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
By Leigh Cowart, NSFWCorp | 10.16.2013
I first read “Man and Superman”, Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on performance-enhancing drugs, at two in the morning. Unable...
By Chris Bell, The Telegraph | 10.16.2013
Towards the end of the Second World War, something unprecedented happened in modern Europe: a famine. Operation Market Garden, the...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.15.2013
Regulators in the United States are considering whether to permit trials of a controversial assisted-reproduction technique intended to help women...
By Polly Toynbee, The Guardian | 10.14.2013
Sliding into reverse: that's the unwelcome finding of Alan Milburn's social mobility and child poverty commission to be published this...
By Elizabeth Murphy, Fast Company | 10.14.2013
There's a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars.

You can purchase 14 gallons of organic milk...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 10.14.2013
CAMBRIDGE — Anne Morriss’s first step toward starting a company to test the DNA of women and their prospective sperm...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 10.14.2013
This week’s Retro Report video tells the story of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal. The...