Stories by Eleonore Pauwels and Jim Dratwa

Personalized Medicine: A Faustian Bargain?

Therapies tailored to an individual's particular genetic makeup could be highly effective—but they could also be too expensive for many of those whose DNA donations go into creating the treatments...

December 10, 2015 — Eleonore Pauwels and Jim Dratwa

How Identity Evolves in the Age of Genetic Imperialism

From designer babies to women whose genitals smell like peaches, 2014 graced us with a taste of the hope, hype and superficiality of business as usual in Silicon Valley.

March 13, 2015 — Eleonore Pauwels and Jim Dratwa