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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 David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.30.2013
On 1 August, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, will start recruiting patients for the...
By Raquel Cool, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.30.2013

I recently decided to retire as an egg donor.

This choice is clearly right for me, and although I speak...

By Asher Zeiger, The Times of Israel | 07.29.2013

A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing...

By Eleanor J Bader, Truthout | 07.28.2013
The 11-year-old Calabasas, California, business is called Planet Hospital. Billing itself as a "medical tourism" company, its website informs...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 07.26.2013
A flurry of eugenics-related news over the last couple of weeks demonstrates that we have to stop considering eugenics a...
By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | 07.26.2013

NEW DELHI — When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple...

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 07.26.2013
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted Thursday to adopt a $70-million plan to develop a...
By Judy Stone, Scientific American | 07.25.2013

uBiome’s CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing...