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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 Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 10.29.2010

Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for...

By Jessica Cerretani, Boston Globe | 10.29.2010

In the end, it was a slice of pizza that sealed his fate: In a scene straight from CSI, a...

By Rebecca Morelle, BBC News | 10.29.2010

It is like a military operation.

There are team briefings, kit is checked and then checked again.

But dealing with...

By NPR, National Public Radio | 10.29.2010

JOE PALCA, host:

From NPR, this is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Joe Palca. It cost a lot of money to sequence...

By Jurgen Habermas, New York Times | 10.28.2010

Since the end of August Germany has been roiled by waves of political turmoil over integration, multiculturalism and the role...

By Ginny Graves, MSNBC | 10.25.2010

In November 2005, Runi Limary, a sixth-grade teacher in Austin, Texas, was diagnosed with invasive cancer in her right breast...

By Andrea Sands, EdmontonJournal.com | 10.24.2010

Alberta stopped its eugenics sterilization program three decades ago, but the practice of "newgenics" is still rampant, a conference heard...

By Laurie Udesky, The Lancet | 10.23.2010

A report into a 1-year investigation of genetic testing firms selling directly to consumers by the US General Accounting Office...