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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 Jesse Larner, Huffington Post | 08.21.2013
I had really hoped never to hear anything more from Jason Richwine. It does sometimes happen that a public figure...
By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post | 08.20.2013
Devan Weathers was pulling into her office parking lot from a lunch break when she got the phone call from...
By Lynne Taylor, PharmaTimes | 08.19.2013
The development of genomics for public health is being prioritised mainly by low- and middle-income nations, with richer countries not...
By Jonathan Marks, Anthropomics | 08.19.2013
Some of you older folks may remember the case in which geneticist Therese Markow (then of Arizona State, now of...
By Judy Campbell, KQED | 08.19.2013

A bill prompted by a custody dispute involving actor Jason Patric would allow certain sperm donors to seek paternity rights...

By Katie Mcdonough, Salon | 08.19.2013
In May of this year, Miriam Yeung, the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, joined...
By Henry Fountain, The New York Times | 08.18.2013
SAN DIEGO — Someday, perhaps, printers will revolutionize the world of medicine, churning out hearts, livers and other organs to...
By Josh Dzieza, The Daily Beast | 08.18.2013
Late last month, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter quietly amended its rules. Genetically modified organisms joined alcohol, drugs, and firearms on...