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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 Judy Norsigian, The Boston Globe | 11.14.2010

Not all stem cell research is in women's best interest.

The issue of embryonic stem cell research has long been...

By Howie Severino, GMANews.TV | 11.09.2010

Like dozens of other men in the dusty copra town of Lopez, Quezon, Rommel, 30, has a long scar that...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 11.08.2010

For decades, researchers have ransacked the genetic pedigrees of people with mental illness, looking for common variations that combine to...

By Bae Ji-sook, The Korea Times | 11.07.2010

Scores of lawmakers, high-ranking officials and entertainers, among others, are suspected of having received illegal stem cell injection treatments here...

By Keith O'Brien, The Boston Globe | 11.07.2010

At criminal trials, there is always talk about doubt, reasonable doubt. But in recent years, with the rise of DNA...

By Sarah Boseley, The Guardian (UK) | 11.06.2010


Nicosia looks nice. The clinic website shows pictures of boats bobbing on blue-green Cypriot waters. Spain feels more familiar, but...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 11.01.2010

When the Justice Department declared in a court filing late Friday that genes should not be eligible for patents because...

By Matthew Kalman and Sophie Borland, The Daily Mail | 11.01.2010

Doctors have developed a blood test that enables mothers-to-be to learn the sex of their babies just seven weeks after...