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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 Evan Allen, Boston Globe | 09.17.2015
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Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley backed a bill that would allow police to collect the DNA of...

By Tamara Kayali Browne, The Ethics Centre | 09.16.2015

Using sex selection to prevent medical complications associated with a particular sex is already permitted. Given this, why might parents...

By Ruth Graham, The Atlantic | 09.15.2015

It was a typical tabloid story with a highly atypical ending. In 2012, the actress Sofia Vergara became engaged to...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.14.2015

An expert advisory panel is urging Ontario to exclude the severely obese and anyone over 42 from its long-delayed plan...

By Kate Hilpern, The Independent | 09.13.2015
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Imagine discovering that your birth certificate is a lie and that your true biological father was a sperm...

By Ruth McKee, The Guardian [UK] | 09.12.2015

Couples who used sperm donors to conceive have had their parental status called into question after “widespread incompetence” in the...

By Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post | 09.11.2015
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This summer, a panel of genetics experts did something surprising: they put out a list of genetic tests...

By Steph Yin, Popular Science | 09.10.2015
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Almost six months ago exactly, a group of scientists published an editorial in Nature entitled “Don’t edit the...