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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 Tom Blackwell, National Post | 05.31.2010
Another board member has suddenly quit the troubled federal agency meant to police Canada’s thriving fertility industry, prompting calls for...
By Jennifer Epstein, Inside Higher Ed | 05.28.2010
A group of faculty members at the University of California at Berkeley hoped to generate conversation among students, and expected...
By Troy Duster, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 05.28.2010
When the University of California at Berkeley announced a project that asks incoming freshmen for the fall of 2010 to...
By Andrew Pollack and Duff Wilson, New York Times | 05.27.2010
They are the highly trained, generally well-paid employees in the vanguard of American innovation: people who work in biotechnology labs...
By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 05.26.2010
If you were hoping to pick up a DNA kit along with your shampoo from the drugstore, you would be...
By Turna Ray, GenomeWeb | 05.25.2010

[updated May 26]

Going ahead with its plans to offer voluntary genetic testing to incoming freshman, the University...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 05.24.2010
Environmentalists have begun a concerted campaign to ensure that new forms of "artificial life" are never released into the wider...
By Steve Connor, The Independent | 05.24.2010
Environmentalists have begun a concerted campaign to ensure that new forms of "artificial life" are never released into the wider...