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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 Viji Sundaram, New America Media | 09.24.2012
Editor's Note: The practice of gender selection, grinding poverty among the people and the stifling caste system have contributed to...
By Sue MacGregor, BBC | 09.24.2012
In this week's Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers together creators of Dolly the cloned sheep - a revolutionary but divisive scientific...
By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 09.24.2012

A Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts...

By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 09.23.2012
With its latest round of awards earlier this month, California's stem cell agency has now handed out $1.5 billion to...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Huffington Post | 09.23.2012
"Your IQ depends on a single gene"; "Long life is all in the genes"; "A gene that could explain why...
By Judith Levine, Seven Days | 09.21.2012
I was in London last week, and the Brits were mad for the Paralympics. Virtually every event was sold out...
By The Daily Scan, The Daily Scan | 09.20.2012

23andMe is opening up its application programming interface so that third-party developers can create apps that will piggyback on customers'...

By Editorial, The New York Times | 09.18.2012

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to reconsider whether California violates the...