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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 Mohit Kumar Jolly, The Conversation | 09.23.2014

Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or “determination of base...

By Denis Grady and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.22.2014
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Jennifer was 39 and perfectly healthy, but her grandmother had died young from breast cancer, so she decided...

By Lisa Ikemoto, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 09.22.2014
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Surrogacy forms the basis of a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States and globally. The top surrogacy...

By Glenna Picton, Baylor College of Medicine News | 09.22.2014
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As genetic sequencing technologies continue to evolve rapidly, becoming part of clinical care, there is a critical need...

By Miranda Ward, We Are Egg Donors | 09.22.2014
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Martene is a South African egg donor and a member of We Are Egg Donors. She is an active...

By Johanna Torres, The Costarican Times [Costa Rica] | 09.21.2014
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Andrea, a Costa Rican mother, stands in court before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C...

By Carmel Shalev, BioEdge | 09.20.2014
Untitled Document Dr Carmel Shalev, of Israel’s Haifa University, is organising a session on helpful and harmful practices in the...
By Laignee Barron, The Phnom Penh Post | 09.20.2014
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In most instances, the practice of assisted reproductive technologies comes before the legal regulations are enshrined, and Cambodia...