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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 Danielle Cronin, Canberra Times | 07.24.2009
A Canberra academic has called for a ban on patents over our body's building blocks, warning these can stifle research...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 07.23.2009
Chinese scientists have bred mice from cells that might offer an alternative to embryonic stem cells, producing the most definitive...
By Medical News Today, Medical News Today | 07.23.2009

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has helped many couples conceive healthy children and is generally considered a safe practice. However, a...

By Michael S. Schmidt and Aland Schwarz, New York Times | 07.22.2009
Confronted with cases of identity and age falsification by Latin American baseball prospects, Major League Baseball is conducting genetic testing...
By Alin Romascan (Bucharest), Dan Even, Barak Ravid and Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz | 07.22.2009
A court in Romania has ordered the detention for another 29 days of two Israeli physicians, Harry Mironescu and his...
By Tom Harvey, Salt Lake City Tribune | 07.22.2009
The University of Utah and Myriad Genetics have asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss a high-profile lawsuit...
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb News | 07.22.2009

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy has called for federal oversight of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, which it believes could...

By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press | 07.15.2009
A Spanish woman who deceived a U.S. fertility clinic about her age and become the oldest woman to give birth...