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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 Dan Vorhaus and John Conley, Genomics Law Report | 09.29.2010
Several months ago we reported that a group of Australian plaintiffs had initiated litigation challenging the validity of Myriad's Australian...
By Amy Standen, NPR Morning Edition | 09.27.2010
Scientists are hoping that a new DNA database for dogs will help track - and prosecute - people who breed...
By BBC, BBC News | 09.24.2010

The government may scrap 177 publicly funded non-governmental advisory bodies, or quangos, and another 94 are under threat, according to...

By CalTV, CalTV [Interviews CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.24.2010

CalTV's Reena Flores explores the controversy behind this year's On the Same Page Program, hosted by UC Berkeley's College of...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 09.24.2010

The Democratic Party has long gained political capital and much of its identity by holding itself out as a champion...

By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune | 09.22.2010

Ten years ago a little girl from Colorado made medical history when her parents and her doctor at the University...

By Saritha Rai, Global Post | 09.21.2010

BANGALORE, India — The couple was particular: the egg donor had to be under 25, fair, beautiful and educated. But...

By Merrill Goozner, Fiscal Times | 09.21.2010

When you fill a prescription or buy medicine over the counter, you have assurance from a power federal agency that...