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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 Nina Liss-Schultz, RH Reality Check | 09.10.2014
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San Francisco might become the first city to explicitly condemn sex-selective abortion bans, if a resolution introduced Tuesday...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.09.2014
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It is perhaps unexpected that the United States — the oft-lampooned home of patents on peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and...

By Julia Belluz, Vox | 09.09.2014

All his life, Neil Schwartzman searched for his biological family. He was adopted in 1960 at 10 days old, and...

By The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Yomiuri Shimbun | 09.09.2014

One out of about 27 babies born in Japan in 2012 was conceived by in vitro fertilization, a sharp increase...

By Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post | 09.09.2014

A surrogate mother who had second thoughts appealed for help from authorities after becoming the target of threats and intimidation...

By Dr. Ted Morrow, BioNews | 09.08.2014

The regulatory path to clinical trials of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) was recently debated in the House of Commons...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.08.2014

Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog. One of the largest, most rigorous genetic studies...

By Carl Elliott, New Scientist | 09.08.2014
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Fancy living forever, or uploading your mind to the net? The Proactionary Imperative embraces transhumanist dreams, but reminds...