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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 UN Women, UN Women | 08.18.2014

New Delhi, July 22, 2014 – The sharply declining child sex ratio in India has reached emergency proportions and urgent...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.16.2014
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Australian law could be revised to allow more than two parents, if recommendations in a major report are...

By Sarah Dingle, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.16.2014

The discovery in her late 20s that she was conceived using a sperm donor was a huge shock to Sarah...

By Theodora Ross, The New York Times | 08.16.2014

DALLAS — ON Aug. 6, researchers announced in The New England Journal of Medicine that they had found that mutations...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 08.13.2014

Fashionable New York professional women gathered at a first-of-its-kind “egg-freezing party” this week — where they sipped champagne while learning...

By Sarah S. Richardson, Cynthia R. Daniels, Matthew W. Gillman, Janet Golden, Rebecca Kukla, Christopher Kuzawa & Janet Rich-Edwards, Nature | 08.13.2014

From folk medicine to popular culture, there is an abiding fascination with how the experiences of pregnant women imprint on...

By Candice Marcus, ABC | 08.13.2014
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A High Court ruling that DNA evidence was not enough to convict a man of murder could have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.13.2014

No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.

Or could they?

When someone commits suicide...