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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 Steve Connor, The Independent | 06.15.2014
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Fertility treatment in the UK is an unregulated "jungle" where anxious couples are routinely offered IVF and other...

By Vardit Ravitsky, Impact Ethics | 06.13.2014
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Elective or ‘social’ egg freezing is a relatively new option available to younger women who are not yet...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.13.2014
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An infant delivered last week in California appears to be the first healthy person ever born in the...

By admin ASAN | 06.12.2014

In response to the recent announcement of the new Google-Autism Speaks collaboration to produce, expand and analyze the world’s largest...

By Margaret Lutze, Guardian Liberty Voice | 06.12.2014
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Should research subjects be given their genetic test results? A paper recently published in The American Journal of...

By Meredith Salisbury, The Huffington Post | 06.12.2014
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As we move closer to an era when a sequence of every human genome is the norm, an...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Verge | 06.12.2014
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For more than a decade, scientists have been developing a fertility technique that involves combining DNA from three...

By Loretta Ross, RH Reality Check | 06.12.2014
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I was sterilized in 1976 when I was 23 years old. My paternalistic doctor visited me the day...