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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 Sarah Ditum, NewStatesman | 09.09.2013
What did Dr Prabha Sivaraman do wrong? She said this: “I don’t ask questions. You want a termination, you want...
By David Langwallner, Independent.ie | 09.09.2013
The Irish Innocence Project welcomes the new DNA database bill, last heard of in 2010. In the US and UK...
By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.06.2013
The age of genomic medicine is dawning. Whole-genome sequencing is starting to transform the diagnosis of rare inherited diseases, and...
By Tom Chivers, The Telegraph | 09.06.2013
Of all the culture-war issues, the endless battles over gay marriage and immigration and so on that divide liberal Left...
By Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 09.05.2013
It is 18 months since Carol Gedda suffered a massive heart attack. It left her with just 20% of her...
By Erika Check, Nature | 09.04.2013
Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a US$25-million programme  to sequence their genomes soon after...
By John Bingham, and Claire Newell, The Telegraph | 09.04.2013
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was accused of failing to uphold the law after it ruled that it would not...
By Diane Tober and Francine Coeytaux, RH Reality Check | 09.04.2013

On August 13, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed AB 926, a bill sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive...