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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 Sunita Puri, Slate | 08.02.2011

"The first thing she said to me was, 'I know it's a girl, and I need your help to get...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 07.31.2011

Federal examiners have rejected patents for genetic screening tests because the applicants did not explore their effectiveness for different races...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 07.29.2011

In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented, overturning a lower...

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 07.28.2011

The federal government can continue to fund embryonic stem cell research, a U.S. district judge ruled Wednesday.

The decision from...
By Carl Elliott, New York Times | 07.28.2011

LAST month, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a scathing reassessment of a 12-year-old research study of Neurontin, a seizure...

By Mara Hvistendahl, Foreign Policy | 07.26.2011

For nearly two decades, anti-abortion activists have been at work in a disingenuous game, using the stark reduction of women...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 07.21.2011
Scientific experiments that insert human genes or cells into animals need new rules to ensure they are ethically acceptable and...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 07.21.2011
Rebecca Blackwell and her 15-year-old son Tyler were curious about his sperm donor father, whose identity had been anonymous since...