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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 Maura Dolan and Jason Felch , Los Angeles Times | 12.26.2008

In 2004, a New Jersey prosecutor announced that DNA had solved the mystery of who killed Jane Durrua, an eighth-grader...

By Carol Natukunda, The New Vision | 12.26.2008
It was a miracle when a virgin bore a baby and later gave birth to Jesus, on what is commemorated...
By Serena Gordon, HealthDay News | 12.26.2008

Women who choose to donate eggs to help infertile couples should know the procedure comes with both psychological and physical...

By Hurriyet Daily News, Hurriyet Daily News | 12.24.2008

ANKARA - The dispute between a main opposition deputy and President Abdullah Gül over the latter's ethnic origin took on...

By Jeffrey Young, The Hill | 12.24.2008
Although President-elect Obama's pledge to change federal policy on stem cell research is not likely to lead to new cures...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 12.23.2008
The global financial crisis may do what opponents of California's $3 billion state-sponsored stem cell research experiment could not: dry...
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 12.21.2008
Baylor College of Medicine is at the forefront of new DNA testing that screens fetuses for hundreds of genetic abnormalities...
By Kate Devlin, Telegraph | 12.19.2008
Doctors hope that the child will be able to break a family history of the disease.

The birth could also...