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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 Tali Woodward, Newsweek online | 06.19.2009
Police cruisers typically escort heads of state, but on a November morning in 1995, the VIP heading down California's Highway...
By Adam Liptak, New York Times | 06.19.2009
Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing that might prove their innocence, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 06.18.2009
Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House last week that their services were no...
By Sheryl Ubelacker, The Globe and Mail | 06.18.2009
In the new Canadian film The Baby Formula, opening later this week, two lesbians become pregnant using sperm derived from...
By Elie Dolgin, The Scientist | 06.17.2009
New York has become the first and only state to opt to pay women for eggs donated for human embryonic...
By Elie Dolgin, The Scientist | 06.16.2009
The excitement surrounding cellular reprogramming and the possibility of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the...
By Raissa Robles, Newsbreak | 06.15.2009

The story almost reads like a fairy tale: no sooner had the child been born than it was taken from...

By Osagie Obasogie, Science Progress | 06.15.2009

A group of faculty members from Stanford University recently published a set of guidelines for using race in human genetics...