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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 Dov Fox, The Huffington Post | 10.06.2014
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More than a million children in the U.S. each year are conceived with donated sperm or eggs. Sperm...

By Jonathan Petre and Stephen Adams, Mail on Sunday | 10.04.2014
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Legislation to allow the birth of babies with genes from three biological parents should be put on hold...

By James Gallagher, BBC News | 10.04.2014
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A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical...

By Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By André Picard, The Globe and Mail | 10.02.2014
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A controversial California company is going to start selling genetic test kits in Canada, and provide the information...

By Meredith Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune | 10.01.2014

A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from...

By Meghann Evans, Winston-Salem Journal | 10.01.2014

Elaine Riddick got a call this week that had been more than 40 years in the making.

Riddick, a victim...