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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 The Guardian, The Guardian | 08.13.2014

Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a...

By Nell GreenfieldBoyce, NPR | 08.13.2014

A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of...

By Council for Responsible Genetics, Council for Responsible Genetics | 08.12.2014

The current structure of biobanks in the United States is missing substantial federal and state policies to address and resolve people’s privacy...

By Vindu Goel, The New York Times | 08.12.2014

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon...

By Jessica Cussins, CNBC | 08.11.2014

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As the genetically modified food wars wage on, another bombshell has been quietly waiting to...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.09.2014

About 50 Australian couples' dreams of having surrogate children have been shattered after Thai authorities linked their Bangkok clinic with...

By Thaddeus Pope, Medical Futility Blog | 08.09.2014
Several Taiwanese researchers have just published a new study:  "Over-Optimistic Portrayal of Life-Supporting Treatments in Newspapers and on the Internet...
By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 08.08.2014

The notoriety of the Tuskegee syphilis study is unparalleled in the field of bioethics. Last week marked the 42nd anniversary...