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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 Wesley Johnson, The Independent [UK] | 10.01.2012
A man wrongly accused and charged with raping a woman was the “innocent victim” of an avoidable mistake, the forensics...
By Jacob P. Koshy, Live Mint | 10.01.2012

New Delhi: A new version of a draft law that proposed to set up a national DNA fingerprint database of...

By Ruth Saunders, BioNews | 10.01.2012

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the US Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to uphold the patent...

By Kerry Grens, Reuters | 09.28.2012

Though assisted-reproduction techniques (ART) are known to come with a higher risk for birth defects, a new review of defect...

By Maureen Salamon, US News | 09.28.2012

FRIDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated genetic test sometimes used during pregnancy can't always predict if chromosomal abnormalities...

By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times | 09.27.2012

By more than a 2-to-1 margin, California voters favor an initiative to require food manufacturers and retailers to label fresh...

By HuffPost Live, HuffPost Live [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.27.2012

A new IVF technique being debated in England uses three genetic parents to create an embryo. This procedure helps avoid...

By Sandra Laville, The Guardian | 09.27.2012
Thousands of ex-offenders are to be targeted in a national drive to add their profiles to the police DNA database...