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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 Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com | 09.21.2010

As a bid to connect science to the heartbeat of Minnesota's popular culture, the collection of DNA from hundreds of...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.20.2010

A new exploration of how evolution works at the genomic level may have a significant impact on drug development and...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 09.20.2010

U.S. colleges and universities for the first time are requiring top student athletes to submit to testing for the gene...

By Argyro Nicolaou, CyprusMail | 09.16.2010

POLICE are waiting for the green light from Ukrainian authorities in order to begin an investigation into claims of human...

By Doree Shafrir, Newsweek | 09.16.2010


Over the summer, two movies that both used sperm donors as plot devices sent the conservative “commentariat” into a conniption...

By Jennifer Rogers, RH Reality Check | 09.16.2010

The hubbub of Kate Plus 8 and Nadya Suleman is largely over. One year ago, articles covering multiple births and...

By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee | 09.15.2010
In the first decision of its kind in the nation, a split appellate court has ruled in a Sacramento case...
By George Annas, The New England Journal of Medicine | 09.15.2010
Embryo research was born political. Expressions of shock and surprise at the August 23 ruling of federal district court judge...