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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 Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News | 09.16.2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- On a March day three years ago in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, Elizabeth "Lily" Haskell was...

By Henry Fountain, New York Times | 09.15.2012

STOCKHOLM — Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the...

By Jasmeet Sidhu, Slate | 09.14.2012

Megan Simpson always expected that she would be a mother to a daughter.

She had grown up in a family...

By Anna Salleh, ABC News | 09.11.2012

Being told you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism could make you feel you have less control over your drinking...

By John Timmer, ARS Technica | 09.10.2012

This week, the ENCODE project released the results of its latest attempt to catalog all the activities associated with the...

By Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post | 09.09.2012
After his 28 years in prison, freed by DNA tests, Donald Eugene Gates reflected on the difficulty of adjusting to...
By Matt Levin, Tico Times | 09.07.2012
Miguel Mejía faced the judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Wednesday in San José. In a wheelchair, he...
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.07.2012
Stem cell research fraud continues, though not as spectacularly as in the lab of disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk. A...