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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 Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 12.14.2012

Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become "post-racial" - a moment...

By Lee Howard, The Day | 12.14.2012
Pfizer Inc. whistleblower Becky McClain’s legal battle to draw public attention to worker-safety issues came to an end Friday as...
By Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Ourselves | 12.13.2012
In early October, I had the honor of co-leading a workshop in Kathmandu on the growing popularity of cross-border surrogacy...
By Patrick Gannon, Star News Online | 12.13.2012
The N.C. House will again pursue legislation in 2013 to compensate state residents sterilized decades ago by a state-sanctioned board...
By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 12.12.2012
The government has announced plans to sequence the whole genomes of 100,000 patients in the NHS. This means every...
By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 12.12.2012

David Pike prefers hiking holidays over seaside lounging, and personalized ads over random promotions. “Show me the trails of Madeira,”...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.12.2012
If you're betting that the California stem cell agency will spurn key recommendations of a blue-ribbon review panel that criticized...
By Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge | 12.12.2012
It’s been six years since DNA testing service 23andMe launched. In that time, about 180,000 people around the world have...