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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 ABC, ABC Australia | 09.06.2015

It’s the fastest growing dimension of the multi-billion dollar fertility industry. Women in the 20s, 30s and 40s choosing to...

By Mark Lawrence Schrad, New York Times | 09.04.2015
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Villanova, Pa. — It was the most heart-wrenching moment of our lives, and all I could do was...

By Dawn Field, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.03.2015
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DNA testing and genomics is now so prevalent there are national genotyping platforms. Iceland became the first country...

By Claire Lee, The Korea Herald | 09.02.2015

South Korea’s Health Ministry is revising its guidelines for in vitro fertilization, discouraging medical professionals from transferring more than three...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 09.02.2015
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Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos so that...

By Chris Arsenault, Reuters | 09.01.2015

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilization of indigenous women in Canadian health centers during the 1970s was more...

By Lauren Wilson, News.com.au | 09.01.2015
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The future of dozens of families has been thrown into limbo after Nepal followed India and Thailand and...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.01.2015
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When Stephen Damiani’s one-year-old son Massimo suddenly lost his ability to crawl and developed other problems in 2009...