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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 Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
By Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...
By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...
By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / The Washington Post | 01.04.2012

ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of...

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / The Washington Post | 01.04.2012

ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of...