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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 Jeanne Whalen, Wall Street Journal | 05.12.2009
In Massachusetts, a young woman makes genetically modified E. coli in a closet she converted into a home lab. A...
By Courier Mail, Courier Mail | 05.10.2009

A test that claims to determine the sex of an unborn baby only eight weeks into a pregnancy will be...

By Marie McCullough, Philadelphia Inquirer | 05.08.2009
After almost a decade of reflection, University of Pennsylvania researcher James M. Wilson says problems with the gene-therapy experiment that...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.07.2009

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Alison Motluk, New Scientist | 05.07.2009
A human ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg...
By Luke Timmerman, Xconomy | 05.07.2009
Targeted Genetics, one of the diehards in the field of gene therapy, appears to be near the end of the...
By Grace Wong, CNN | 05.06.2009
LONDON, England (CNN) -- If you want to peer inside your DNA, there's no shortage of companies offering avenues for...
By Ben Protess, ProPublica | 05.05.2009

Kellie Greene spent three years living in fear, waiting for police to catch the stranger who raped her.

Her fear...