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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 David Cyranoski, Nature News | 09.29.2015
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Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have produced an unexpected byproduct — tiny pigs that a leading Chinese genomics institute will...

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hastings Center Report | 09.28.2015
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On April 3, 2015, a group of prominent biologists and ethicists called for a worldwide moratorium on human...

By J. Wesley Judd, Pacific Standard | 09.28.2015

Consensus is not a word used when talking about assisted reproductive technology, or ART, for short. In the past, we've reported...

By W. Carson Byrd & Matthew W. Hughey, Washington Post | 09.28.2015
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This month, Jennifer Cramblett lost her “wrongful birth” lawsuit, which centered on a troubling ideology that...

By Jim Brown, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 09.27.2015

If you're a would-be Canadian parent with a patriotic bent and you're looking for help conceiving, there could be cause...

By Kristina Davis, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 09.27.2015

SAN DIEGO — The fate of as many as 500,000 DNA samples collected from felony arrestees and stored in a...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.25.2015
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Scientists in Boston have come up with a twist on an important method for “editing” genomes that could...

By Elizabeth Church, The Globe and Mail | 09.25.2015

It was a promise on a truly motherhood issue. In the spring of 2014, the Ontario Liberals, fighting to hold...