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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 Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 10.16.2015
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During a periodic training on the university’s harassment policies today, I learned that my institution has added “genetic...

By Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science | 10.16.2015
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The story of filmmaker Michael Usry’s arrest seems like it could have come straight from an episode of...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 10.16.2015
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On their websites, next to glossy pictures of babies, some fertility clinics and egg-donor agencies refer to eggs...

By Mirah Riben, HuffPost Blog | 10.15.2015
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"Give me children, or else I die. Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 10.15.2015
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So you’ve made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it...

By The Economic Times, The Economic Times | 10.15.2015

NEW DELHI: A blanket ban may be imposed soon on NRIs, PIOs and foreigners having children through surrogacy in India...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 10.15.2015
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An inexpensive handheld device that can read strands of DNA has been hailed as revolutionary by scientists who...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2015
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Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA?

One Seattle-area...