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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 Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Conversation | 09.03.2013
Organ trafficking and illicit transplant surgeries have infiltrated global medical practice. But despite the evidence of widespread criminal networks and...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel, Huffington Post | 09.03.2013

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed researchers to pay women for having their...

By David Dobbs, Pacific Standard | 09.03.2013
A few years ago, Gene Robinson, of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap...
By Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2013 | 09.03.2013
Few creatures have ever existed that can match the sheer weirdness of Australia’s gastric brooding frog. As the name suggests...
By Amy Corderoy, The Age | 09.02.2013
An infertile Australian woman is pregnant after growing new eggs in ovarian tissue transplanted into her abdomen in a world...
By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 09.02.2013
"I don't know what information I want," a woman whose whole genome was being mapped recently told me. Her son...
By Michele Goodwin and Judy Norsigian, WeNews | 09.01.2013
(WOMENSENEWS)-- On Sept. 5, 2012, a 53-year-old grandmother from Chicago, Cindy Reutzel, birthed her daughter's baby, and said she would...
By Bob Ortega, The Republic | 08.31.2013
In early June, an Indian medical researcher traveled to Chicago to report seemingly astounding results from a decadelong study of...