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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, The New York Times | 09.04.2010

THE scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines — and drew comparisons to Dr. Frankenstein — when he announced in...

By Peter Vinthagen Simpson, The Local | 09.03.2010

Wahlberg occupies 26th place on the Sweden Democrats list for municipal elections in Landskrona in southern Sweden and he currently...

By Helen W. Brown, PhD, AARP.org | 09.01.2010

A large majority of Americans have never been tested for their genetic makeup, according to a recent AARP Bulletin survey. ...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 09.01.2010

If attendees at the Minnesota State Fair aren't too busy revelling in the performances of Kiss or "Weird Al" Yankovic...

By Scott Carney, Fast Company | 09.01.2010

Krinos Trokoudes knows this much about women: "If you pay something," he says with a smile, "you get lots of...

By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz | 08.31.2010

Yesterday's Hebrew edition of Haaretz reported a remark by a German politician that sparked a political and public furor. The...

By Viji Sundaram, New America Media | 08.31.2010

ENCINO, Calif-On a recent day in this Los Angeles suburb, Maya Jagdeesh, 35, was being wheeled out of a room...

By Katherine Hobson, Wall Street Journal Health Blog | 08.30.2010

At the Minnesota State Fair, which runs through Labor Day, you can watch a butter sculptor carve the busts of...