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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 Joshua A. Krisch, Vocativ | 08.11.2015

Even as Google and Apple promise employees egg-freezing privileges, the statistics behind in-vitro fertilization remain sobering. 75 percent of...

By Linda Geddes, The Independent | 08.10.2015
Untitled Document Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to...
By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 08.10.2015

The association between a woman's age and her fertility never seems far from the news but recently there has been...

By Ben Fidler, Xconomy | 08.10.2015

To this point, the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been a science project, a research tool with enormous potential—and significant...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 08.08.2015
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Mother Nature has always been life's master architect, working off genetic blueprints that are fine-tuned from one generation...

By Boen Wang, The Daily Collegian | 08.07.2015
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The lab is like many others. Located at the end of a long hall on the top floor...

By Penny Yi Wang, ABC News | 08.07.2015

Thailand, once a top choice for would-be parents around the world who were seeking a surrogate, has narrowed the...

By Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. & Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., New England Journal of Medicine | 08.06.2015
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That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ability to treat and cure sick people is beyond contention...