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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 Laurance, The Independent | 11.18.2009
Personal DNA testing to diagnose and cure disease – often touted as the future of medicine – was dealt a...
By Steven Greenhouse, New York Times | 11.16.2009
The most important new antidiscrimination law in two decades — the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act — will take effect in...
By Karl Plume, Reuters | 11.13.2009
To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar...
By Richard Alleyne, The Telegraph | 11.12.2009

Researchers used eggs from young donors to repair damaged eggs of older women in order to increase their chances of...

By Kate Kelland, Reuters | 11.09.2009
A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down's Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to...
By Kevin B. O'Reilly, American Medical News | 11.09.2009

After heated controversy last winter over the birth of octuplets conceived through in vitro fertilization, the American Society for Reproductive...

By Robert F. Service, ScienceNOW Daily News | 11.05.2009
The cost of sequencing an entire human genome continues to plummet. Complete Genomics, a Mountain View, California-based biotechnology company last...
By Press Trust of India, Press Trust of India | 11.02.2009

Two doctors were awarded three years imprisonment by a local court here for propagating sex determination tests, banned under Pre-conception...