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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 Donna Dickenson, The Globe and Mail | 08.28.2010

We are on the leading edge of a true revolution in medicine," Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes...

By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.28.2010

When UC Berkeley changed its controversial DNA-testing program under pressure earlier this month so that incoming students would no longer...

By Jeremy Olson, The Star Tribune | 08.27.2010

The Poikonen family's first stop at the State Fair Thursday morning was for nine pronto pups.

Their second? The University...

By Amana Fontanella-Khan, Slate | 08.23.2010

You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now...

By Alan Miller, The Marin Independent Journal | 08.23.2010

FACULTY MEMBERS at major universities such as the University of California at Berkeley learn early on to be very cautious...

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.22.2010

Two California newspapers today offered quite different views of the world - one bleak and the other filled with hope...

By Denis Campbell, The Guardian (UK) | 08.22.2010

Nicola and Nigel Dawson have experienced the frustration and heartbreak of infertility. The couple tried for several years to conceive...

By Roger Highfield, watoday.com | 08.21.2010

The cloned food furore has been a timely reminder of how, even when we recognise a big idea, no one...