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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 Teddy Wilson, RH Reality Check | 03.31.2014
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill Wednesday to punish any physician in the state who is found to...
By David Dodge, The New York Times | 03.31.2014
“But … I’m so short!”

This, unfortunately, will always be the first phrase out of my mouth after my good...
By Christopher Mims, Quartz | 03.29.2014
A pair of advocates—they do legitimate research too, but their ardor is so intense, it’s hard to call them scientists—believe...
By Gregory E. Kaebnick, Bioethics Forum | 03.28.2014
A team of scientists announced this week that it had successfully created one of the sixteen chromosomes found in yeast...
By Raquel Cool, We Are Egg Donors | 03.28.2014

Let’s talk about stigma for a second.

A year ago, we started We are Egg Donors as an advocacy and...

By Emily Dugan, The Independent | 03.27.2014
Record numbers of lesbian couples are becoming parents through fertility treatment, official figures show. The number of two-mum families jumped...
By Monte Morin, The Los Angeles Times | 03.27.2014
As new revelations further discredit a highly publicized Japanese study on the use of acid to create so-called STAP stem...
By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 03.27.2014
From "paradigm changer" to "sloppy and irresponsible". In just two months, two papers revealing a simple...