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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 Lloyd Lewis and Julie Reiskin, Denver Post | 07.04.2013

Eugenics was a disturbing sociopolitical movement in the early 20th century that promoted reproduction of the "fittest" and limited reproduction...

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 07.04.2013
The health secretary is launching a new government organisation to oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare that...
By Ryann Summers, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.03.2013
Recently, a former co-worker and his romantic partner sent me a text message that left me reeling.

It essentially read:...
By Kashmir Hill, Forbes | 07.02.2013
In what sounds like a plot twist from a dystopic-future novel, Mississippi is now requiring hospitals to store the blood...
By Larry Husten, Forbes | 07.02.2013
Serious questions have been raised about the integrity and validity of research performed by a well-established German stem cell research...
By Kevin B. O’Reilly, American Medical News | 07.01.2013
Officials at Facebook are exploring how to help patients in need of organ transplants use the social networking service to...
By Alison Hsiao, Taipei Times | 07.01.2013
In an attempt to curb the practice of gender selection among parents-to-be, the Department of Health (DOH) is mulling imposing...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.01.2013
California legislation to allow women to be paid for their eggs for scientific research is sailing toward final passage literally...