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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 Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times | 11.05.2012
That vote you’re about to cast may have been set in motion long ago — going all the way back...
By Donna Dickenson, BioNews | 11.05.2012
'We are in a new era of the life sciences, but in no area of research is the promise greater...
By Evan Charney and William English, Scientific American | 11.05.2012
Dozens of studies in the past few years have linked single genes to whether a person is liberal or conservative...
By Susan Straight, The New York Times | 11.03.2012
SOMETIMES life is like a fun-house mirror, the glass and then the real thing. I had just watched the TV...
By Jonathan D. Moreno, The Scientist | 11.01.2012
Think of a question or technology of interest to neuroscience and there is an application with military or counterintelligence potential...
By Tom Nightingale, ABC News (Australia) | 11.01.2012

A Senate committee is looking into the controversial practice of sterilising disabled people, something many Australians are shocked to find...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 11.01.2012
The company that makes the world's biggest-selling gene test for breast and ovarian cancers is refusing to share groundbreaking knowledge...
By Ricki Lewis, PLOS Blogs | 11.01.2012
Famous folk have been writing about their genome sequences for a few years now. But when I received two such...