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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 Michael Smith, Bloomberg Markets Magazine | 05.11.2011
Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed...
By Kate Kelland, Reuters | 05.11.2011
A study of more than 400,000 IVF cycles has found that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from...
By Rebecca Martin, The Local | 05.10.2011
"We can’t recognise a DNA-test because the question isn’t really if the man is the boy’s biological father, but if...
By Eliza Barclay, NPR Blog | 05.09.2011
For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off.

Boosters have said if...
By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 05.09.2011
A young man followed a woman into a coffee shop as she prepared to open for business at 6 a.m...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2011

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 05.06.2011
The Polish port city of Gdansk is famous for its shipyards. Hungary's fifth largest city, Pecs, is known for its...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 05.04.2011
On Wednesday morning the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced a $25-million award to support a spinal cord injury trial. ...