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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 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...
By Yi Whan-woo, The Korea Times | 05.29.2012
A stem cell researcher at Seoul National University (SNU) is suspected of fabricating 14 studies submitted to international scientific journals...
By Yi Whan-woo, The Korea Times | 05.29.2012
A stem cell researcher at Seoul National University (SNU) is suspected of fabricating 14 studies submitted to international scientific journals...
By Shekhar Bhatia, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.26.2012
There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents...
By Shekhar Bhatia, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.26.2012
There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents...
By Art Caplan, MSNBC | 05.24.2012
The German Medical Association has issued a remarkably blunt and straightforward apology, more than six decades after the end of...
By Art Caplan, MSNBC | 05.24.2012
The German Medical Association has issued a remarkably blunt and straightforward apology, more than six decades after the end of...
By Travis Loller, Associated Press | 05.24.2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group...