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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 Robert Brauchle, Utica Observer-Dispatch | 01.20.2011
Police departments throughout the state can access an ever-expanding databank of DNA samples collected from felons to help solve open...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 01.20.2011
During a two-year legal battle, Anthony and Shawn Raftopol, Americans who live in Holland, worried that only one of the...
By Jane Fae Ozimek, The Register (UK) | 01.19.2011
West Yorkshire Police have sought to clarify a senior officer's remarks after she called for a database of all men...
By Mico Tatalovic, SciDev Net | 01.17.2011
Environmental campaigners are urging developing countries to include the rapidly advancing science of synthetic biology — the building of new...
By James Gallagher, BBC News | 01.17.2011
Demand for donor treatment is far greater than supply and the body which regulates treatment is concerned about couples looking...
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 01.12.2011
Doctors who recommend genetic testing for healthy relatives of cancer patients overwhelmingly favor unnecessary, costly tests in a survey done...
By Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (UK) | 01.10.2011
What is it like to work for a quango that has been given a death sentence? For staff at the...
By Michael Burnam-Fink, Science Progress | 01.07.2011
In the past decade, the U.S. military’s interest in human enhancement technologies has waxed and waned. An initial surge of...