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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 David Savage, Los Angeles Times | 02.02.2013
WASHINGTON — On a cold February night three years ago, police in suburban Arlington, Va., received a frantic call. A...
By Angus Reid Global, Angus Reid Global | 01.31.2013

Americans More Morally Conservative Than Canadians and Britons

Respondents in Britain are less likely to find medical testing on animals...

By Opinion staff, Daily News | 01.31.2013
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos goes too far - too deep into Orwellian territory -- in proposing...
By Associated Press, NPR | 01.31.2013
PARIS (AP) — The French are all for sex and all for family — so long as you're having sex...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.30.2013
US citizens who had pinned their hopes on a company being able to offer stem-cell treatments close to home will...
By Emily Swanson, Huffington Post | 01.30.2013
Recently, reports spread like wildfire that Harvard geneticist George Church was seeking an "adventurous female human" to be a surrogate...
By CBS4, CBS Denver | 01.30.2013

DENVER (CBS4) – There’s a proposal to collect DNA from everyone who commits a crime in Colorado, no matter how...

By Hilary Rose, The Guardian | 01.30.2013

Hilary Rose, co-author of Genes, Cells and Brains, argues that we should treat the medical claims made for genetic...