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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 Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 03.28.2013
If you thought personalised advertising based on your Facebook status updates, Gmail content or online browsing behaviour was creepy, just...
By Caroline Wright and Anna Middleton, Genomes Unzipped | 03.28.2013
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has recently published recommendations for reporting incidental findings (IFs) in clinical exome and...
By Alison Motluk, National Post | 03.28.2013
A young Florida woman who suffered a stroke after donating her eggs to a Canadian couple is suing a Toronto...
By Françoise Baylis, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 03.27.2013

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Children born since the mid-1990s after ooplasm transfer (estimated to...

By Chris Bennett, Western Farm Press | 03.27.2013
China is surging ahead with a research project aimed at identifying millions of genetic variations in order to boost intelligence...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.27.2013
When Lars Steinmetz and his team published the genome of the world’s most famous human cell line earlier this month...
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.27.2013
A national screening programme for prostate cancer could be introduced by the NHS following an international effort by more than...
By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.26.2013
Clinics that offer unproven stem-cell treatments often end up playing cat and mouse with health regulators, no matter which country...