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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 Sujatha Byravan, The Hindu | 05.06.2013
Over the last week, there have been several articles celebrating the passage of 60 years since James Watson and Francis...
By Natasha Bita, News.com.au | 05.05.2013
Global Health Travel is offering baby sex-selection trips to Thailand and Malaysia.

For $12,000, couples can spend 11 days in...
By Hope Reese, The Atlantic | 05.02.2013
 On May 22, the American Psychiatric Association will release the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the...
By Mizuho Aoki, The Japan Times | 05.02.2013
The first egg bank in Japan is expected to register initial donors by midmonth to help infertile young married women...
By Rachel, Our Bodies Our Blog | 04.30.2013
Our Bodies Ourselves board member Miriam Zoll has a new book coming out on May 1, Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility...
By Philip Ball, Scientific American | 04.28.2013
This week's diamond jubilee of the discovery of DNA's molecular structure rightly celebrates how Francis Crick, James Watson and their...
By TechEye, TechEye | 04.25.2013

Dr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, warned at a MedConfidential event in London that beyond electronically storing...