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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 Kim Christensen, The Los Angeles Times | 03.23.2011
Federal prosecutors were surprised to learn this week that Dr. Ricardo Asch, who was being held in Mexico City for...
By Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle, The Kansas City Star | 03.20.2011

For nearly three years, the military held the key to Roger House's exoneration and didn't tell him: A forensics examiner...

By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 03.17.2011
In recent years the issue of whether, how and when to use racial categories in biomedicine has been a subject...
By Loretta Arnold, Examiner.com [Raleigh] | 03.17.2011
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue sends a Task Force message within Executive Order No. 83 involving the North Carolina Eugenics...
By Julie Moult, The Daily Mail (UK) | 03.16.2011

Most parents are so grateful to have a healthy baby that the sex of the child is a secondary consideration...

By Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.15.2011
A suspect in a 2008 sexual assault of a Santa Cruz coffee-shop worker has been arrested through a relatively new...
By Shira Schoenberg, Concord Monitor | 03.15.2011
State Rep. Martin Harty resigned yesterday, facing outrage from constituents, colleagues and strangers over comments he made endorsing eugenics for...
By Alok Jha, The Observer (UK) | 03.13.2011

It is unclear at exactly what point the phrase "stem cell" entered the vernacular, one of very few scientific terms...