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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 Rebecca Hill, BioNews | 06.07.2012
The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has published its final report, which marks the end of its 12 years as an...
By Nick Collins, The Telegraph (UK) | 06.07.2012
American experts have developed a blood test which they claim could be used to routinely screen foetuses for more than...
By Rebecca Hill, BioNews | 06.07.2012
The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has published its final report, which marks the end of its 12 years as an...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 06.06.2012
Who owns our bodies? One of the weirder cases exploring this bioethical question involved South Carolinian John Wood, whose leg...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.06.2012

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from...

By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times | 06.06.2012

Researchers at the University of Washington have assembled the first comprehensive genetic map of an unborn child — a development...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 06.06.2012
Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State and national security adviser, ought to be a tough woman to surprise. Yet...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 06.06.2012
Who owns our bodies? One of the weirder cases exploring this bioethical question involved South Carolinian John Wood, whose leg...