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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 Steven Rose, The Guardian | 06.19.2014
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Fantasies of human enhancement have a long history, from early myths about supernormal strength and eternal life to 20th-century...

By Health Canal, Health Canal | 06.18.2014

The approval of a new treatment method by which three parents will be able to beget a child is being...

By Amanda Marcotte, Slate | 06.18.2014
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Put this in the "can they even do that?" files. Jesse Lee Herald of Edinburg, Virginia, received an...

By Li Yan, Global Times | 06.17.2014
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Business is booming in the Chinese mainland's ovary egg donation black market where agencies advertise their underground services...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 06.16.2014
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When Jessica Kern gave evidence to lawmakers in Washington, DC, last summer opposing the legalization of surrogacy in...

By Swapna Majundar, Thomson Reuters Foundation | 06.16.2014
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When Yuma Sherpa told doctors at a private fertility clinic here that she wanted to back out, her...

By Paolo Bianco & Douglas Sipp, Nature | 06.16.2014
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Modern medicine depends on products that must pass rigorous tests for safety and efficacy before being marketed to...

By Elena Cattaneo & Gilberto Corbellini, Nature | 06.16.2014
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Scientists get the most satisfaction from working long hours at the bench with like-minded colleagues, but sometimes their...