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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 Daniel Cressey, Nature | 07.25.2013
UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, research gaps and possibly even miscarriages of justice, according to...
By S. Lochlann Jain, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.25.2013
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering a crucial bill (AB926) on human egg donation. The bill would enable payment to women...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, The New York Times | 07.24.2013

SAN FRANCISCO — WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.24.2013
A key panel of the California stem cell agency today balked at approving a plan to ease restrictions on using...
By Anne Schindler, First Coast News | 07.23.2013
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In many ways, the US and Canada aren't that different. But there are important distinctions. And one...
By Alex Stern and Tony Platt, The Huffington Post | 07.23.2013
The recent revelation that 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 is another example...
By George Estreich, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 07.23.2013
I’m just home from the annual National Down Syndrome Congress convention, and even given the fact that Down syndrome lands...
By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press | 07.22.2013
RALEIGH, N.C. - A proposed budget agreement sets aside $10 million for one-time payments to North Carolina's forced sterilization victims...