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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 Miriam Zoll, The Atlantic | 05.22.2013
In her best selling novel, State of Wonder, author Ann Patchett draws us into the science-fiction world of an...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.21.2013
Internationally renown scientist Lee Hood, winner of a National Medal of Science, violated the conflict of interest policies of...
By Flagged | 05.21.2013

Please join us at the CGS office on Monday June 3 at 4:30 pm for a conversation with award-winning author...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.20.2013

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Gayle Sulik, Scientific American | 05.20.2013
After learning that she had inherited a mutation on one of the so-called breast cancer genes, actress Angelina Jolie decided...
By Emma Stoye, BioNews | 05.20.2013
A new technique for monitoring embryo health could increase the chance of IVF couples having a healthy baby, according to...
By Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera | 05.17.2013


In a major step forward in science, biologists have finally managed to create human stem cells through cloning. Some say...

By Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Our Blog | 05.17.2013
Angelina Jolie certainly has good intentions in sharing her experience with breast cancer genetic testing and her decision to have...