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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 Brittany Malooly, VICE Broadly | 01.10.2016

The price for a single vial of sperm in the fertility market goes for anything between $370 to $890 dollars...

By Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic | 01.08.2016
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Assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, are more common in the U.S. than they’ve ever been: The Centers for...

By Angela Natividad, Adweek | 01.08.2016

People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level.

The...

By Kate Tuttle, Salon | 01.07.2016
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— Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Buck v. Bell”

“I don’t want to be...

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Zocalo Public Square | 01.06.2016
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Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws...

By Jerry Bowyer, Forbes | 01.06.2016
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Like me, you’ve probably noticed that people tend to think of math as morally neutral. There’s the world...

By Brandy Zadrozny, The Daily Beast | 01.06.2016
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Backed by a well-known anti-choice lawyer, a surrogate mother-to-be in California is suing the genetic father (and intended...

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 01.06.2016
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KEEP them close. Women having IVF can now incubate embryos in their own bodies before they are implanted...