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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 Matthew Herper, Forbes | 09.15.2010
Over the past 12 months, in scattered cases reported in top medical journals, doctors have done something amazing: They have...
By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor | 09.15.2010
Kevin Davies sent a sample of his saliva to a genetic testing laboratory in Iceland to learn about his health...
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations | 09.10.2010
BERKELEY - A controversial UC Berkeley program to analyze three genes in the DNA of incoming students culminates next week...
By Patricia Williams, The Nation | 09.09.2010
The school year at the University of California, Berkeley, began with a swab. In a program called Bring Your Genes...
By Gardiner Harris, New York Times | 09.09.2010
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court here ruled Thursday that federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could continue while...
By Hamish McNeilly, The Otago Daily Times | 09.07.2010

Police are welcoming enhancements to crime-fighting technology which will allow them to take more DNA samples from suspected criminals -...

By Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker | 09.06.2010

When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public...

By Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker | 09.06.2010
When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public...