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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 VNS, Viet Nam News | 01.22.2016
HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam's first surrogate baby was born this morning at the Ha Noi-based Central Maternity Hospital...
By Trudy Ring, The Advocate | 01.22.2016
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As Italy’s Parliament prepares to debate a civil unions bill, some lawmakers have proposed an amendment punishing couples...

By Sarah Sloat, Inverse | 01.21.2016
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At a 2001 talk in Berlin, transhumanist and Oxford academic Anders Sandberg addressed the crowd. “I am hoping...

By Sonali Kolkhatkar, TruthDig | 01.21.2016
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A new documentary airing soon on PBS covers a grisly era of California history—the forced sterilization of untold...

By Christine Aicardi, Maria Damjanovicova, Lorenzo Del Savio, Federica Lucivero, Maru Mormina, Maartje Niezen & Barbara Prainsack, The Hastings Center Report | 01.20.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

By S.P. Sullivan, NJ | 01.20.2016
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TRENTON — People convicted of many disorderly persons offenses in New Jersey will have their DNA added to...

By Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times | 01.20.2016
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For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit...

By Gabriela Gorbea, VICE News | 01.19.2016
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Geoff Moss thought he had found — in Mexico — the "ideal location" for his agency that offers childless...