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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 Jason Silverstein, Huffington Post | 06.22.2012
Taking DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime, has the potential to make our already unfair...
By Jason Silverstein, Huffington Post | 06.22.2012
Taking DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime, has the potential to make our already unfair...
By The Associated Press, Great Falls Tribune | 06.21.2012
A Montana couple who say they would have terminated a pregnancy if they had known their daughter would be born...
By Peter Korn, Portland Tribune | 06.21.2012

Jeri Chambers is in the middle of her seventh pregnancy and still enjoying the process.

That's a good thing, since...

By The Associated Press, Great Falls Tribune | 06.21.2012
A Montana couple who say they would have terminated a pregnancy if they had known their daughter would be born...
By Peter Korn, Portland Tribune | 06.21.2012

Jeri Chambers is in the middle of her seventh pregnancy and still enjoying the process.

That's a good thing, since...

By Kim Severson, The New York Times | 06.20.2012
North Carolina’s novel effort to compensate people who were sterilized under a widespread and decades-long eugenics program that stretched into...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 06.20.2012

Late in May, the direct-to-consumer gene-testing company 23andMe proudly announced the impending award of its first patent. The firm's research...