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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 MSNBC, MSNBC | 03.19.2007

BUFFALO, N.Y. - When a 60-year-old man spat on the sidewalk, his DNA became as public as if he had...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 03.19.2007

The test, the counselor said, had come back positive.

Katharine Moser inhaled sharply. She thought she was as ready as...

By Corey Kilgannon, New York Times | 03.15.2007

A rollicking gospel choir was shaking the floor of a Harlem brownstone when Vy Higginsen told the crowd around the...

By Emily Singer, MIT Technology Review | 03.13.2007

A 38-year-old woman with fer­tility problems has three sons but wants a daughter to round out the family. She uses...

By Marisa Taylor, Red Herring | 03.13.2007

Small companies working to develop human embryonic stem cell therapies face innumerable challenges when looking for funding, according to several...

By Marie McCullough, Philadelphia Inquirer | 03.10.2007

PHILADELPHIA - When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard...

By ABC News, ABC News | 03.09.2007

There's no doubt that blue-eyed Chloe Kingsbury is a special kid, but how she came into this world can only...

By Faye Flam, Seattle Times | 03.09.2007

Months before the FDA's December announcement that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat, employees at Cyagra were carving...