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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 Clair Achmad, The Conversation | 12.25.2014
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This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 12.24.2014
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In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white.

The state’s Racial...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.24.2014
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Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the...

By Darlena Cunha, The Atlantic | 12.22.2014
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When Rhyannon Morrigan and her husband Drew used an egg donor and surrogate to have their child at...

By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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A year after the US Food and Drug Administration urged 23andMe to stop the marketing of its personal...

By Mirah Riben, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1932), Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale, 1985), and Lois Lowry...

By Martin Fackler, The New York Times | 12.19.2014
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TOKYO — In a blow to the prestige of Japan’s scientific community, a government-backed research institute accepted...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.18.2014

Today the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that human embryonic stem cell patents could be allowed if organisms can't...