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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 CBS NY, CBS New York | 01.11.2012

The state of New York is considering a dramatic expansion of its DNA collection. New Yorkers who find themselves under...

By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post | 01.10.2012
Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Douglas Pet, Slate | 01.09.2012

The booming business in international surrogacy, whereby Westerners have begun hiring poor women in developing countries to carry their babies...

By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...
By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...