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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 Simon Leese, PHG Foundation | 07.09.2012
A new report makes recommendations for policy makers on the regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing in the European Union...
By Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen, Science Nordic | 07.08.2012

The ambitious Faroese FarGen project has set out to sequence the Faroese genome.

The project will be the first one...

By Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune | 07.06.2012

When Cook County prosecutors brought Cleveland Barrett to trial earlier this year for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a...
By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times | 07.06.2012

Scientists can now sequence the entire genome of a fetus from samples of a pregnant woman’s blood, several recent studies...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.06.2012

In what could be a landmark case, six patients in California are suing one of the world’s largest stem-cell companies...

By Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune | 07.06.2012

When Cook County prosecutors brought Cleveland Barrett to trial earlier this year for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a...
By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times | 07.06.2012

Scientists can now sequence the entire genome of a fetus from samples of a pregnant woman’s blood, several recent studies...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.06.2012

In what could be a landmark case, six patients in California are suing one of the world’s largest stem-cell companies...