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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 Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience | 08.05.2010

Berkeley's incoming freshmen face the unprecedented choice of whether to take part in a genetic testing program this fall. But...

By Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press | 08.04.2010

News that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned cattle - illegal to sell in without proper authorization -...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature | 08.03.2010
In the ethically fraught field of human-embryo research, Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has long been regarded as...
By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times | 08.03.2010

When UC Berkeley researchers announced earlier this year they planned to stimulate discussion by asking new students to submit DNA...

By Steve Johnson, Mercury News | 07.30.2010

A Menlo Park biotech firm said Friday that federal regulators will let it proceed with the world's first human test...

By Jason Burke, The Guardian | 07.30.2010

Shabnum Nur Mohammed Sheikh's reasons for bearing another woman's child are straightforward: the 60 rupees (80p) her husband earns from...

By Lisa Adams, Daily Record | 07.29.2010

MEET the doctor who is making Scots' dreams of designing the perfect baby come true.

Dr Jeffrey Steinberg reveals five...

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 07.29.2010
ARE we witnessing the beginning of the end of "personal genomics"? After a bruising hearing in the US Congress last...