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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 Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 06.01.2012

Earlier this week 23andMe, the Silicon Valley-based personal genomics company, was awarded its first patent: US Patent Number 8,187,811, entitled...

By Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post | 05.31.2012
A measure to ban abortions based on the sex of a child failed Thursday to earn enough support in the...
By Monya Baker, Nature News Blog | 05.31.2012

The consumer-genetics testing company 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, announced its first patent this week, and some of its...
By Sujatha Jesudason and Anat Shenker-Osorio, RH Reality Check | 05.31.2012

Son preference, missing girls, sex selection: We may seek to label these Chinese or Indian issues, but they exist here...

By Ed O'Keefe, Washington Post | 05.31.2012
A measure to ban abortions based on the sex of a child failed Thursday to earn enough support in the...
By Monya Baker, Nature News Blog | 05.31.2012

The consumer-genetics testing company 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, announced its first patent this week, and some of its...
By Sujatha Jesudason and Anat Shenker-Osorio, RH Reality Check | 05.31.2012

Son preference, missing girls, sex selection: We may seek to label these Chinese or Indian issues, but they exist here...

By Anna Patty, Sydney Morning Herald | 05.30.2012
People tested for predisposition to a genetic disease will no longer have a say in whether their results are given...