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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 Bun Sengkong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post | 06.23.2016

Despite a veil of secrecy, details are beginning to emerge about Cambodia’s burgeoning commercial surrogacy industry.

In an article on...

By Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times | 06.23.2016

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that includes a provision to pay for assisted reproductive technology...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 06.23.2016

Now that a federal biosafety and bioethics committee has approved what would be the first use of the trailblazing genome-editing...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.22.2016

The surgeon gasped when he opened up his patient and saw what was in his spine. It was a huge...

By Danielle Venton, KQED News | 06.22.2016

When stem cells burst on to the public scene 20 years ago, hand-wringing and excitement in equal measure ensued.

Scientists...

By Karl Ritter, ABC News | 06.22.2016

A disgraced stem cell scientist is facing preliminary charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with two patients who died after...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 06.21.2016

Despite worries about conflict of interest, a National Institutes of Health committee that oversees the use of gene therapy and...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.21.2016

"Welcome to You.” So says the genetic test kit that 23andMe will send to your home. Pay $199, spit in...