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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 Shelley Rowland, Lexology | 06.25.2014

Last year, the Federal Court of Australia confirmed that isolated naturally occurring nucleic acid sequences are patent eligible subject matter. ...

By Susan Donaldson James, ABC | 06.25.2014
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Jennifer Lahl is on a crusade to outlaw surrogacy, the process by which women lend their wombs to...

By Cat Barton, AFP | 06.25.2014
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Lao Cai (Vietnam) (AFP) - When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party...

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, The Irish Times | 06.24.2014

The Government should explain what will happen to children whose parents break the law by entering into a commercial surrogacy...

By David Perry, ThisMess.net | 06.23.2014
Untitled Document Yesterday I published a guest post by Nancy McCrea Iannone, an expert on Down syndrome and pregnancy. I would...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 06.23.2014
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“And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall, tell ’em a hookah...

By Doree Shafrir, BuzzFeed | 06.22.2014
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I couldn’t tell you the exact moment I started thinking about whether I was going to be able...

By Mona Gable, Huffington Post | 06.21.2014
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In the fall of 2010, as my brother was dying of colon cancer, I learned a terrifying secret...