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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 Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.06.2013
The UK is moving closer to three-parent children after the fertility regulator informed the government that the public would back...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 04.04.2013
JUST add water and sperm – any romance should be provided separately. In future, women who want to safeguard their...
By Ruha Benjamin, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.04.2013
Many critics of the publicly funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have fixated on conflicts of interest that plague the...
By Emily Underwood, ScienceInsider | 04.03.2013

For neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, sitting in an ornate White House chamber yesterday listening to President Barack Obama heap praise—and some...

By Gavin O'Toole, Al Jazeera (English) | 04.03.2013
London, UK - Fertility regulators in the UK have paved the way for the introduction of a radical form of...
By Christopher Weaver, Wall Street Journal | 04.03.2013
New prenatal blood tests for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome are reshaping care for expectant mothers, but their rapid...
By Brooke Jarvis, The Verge | 04.02.2013
I'd been friends with Chris for years when he mentioned, casually, that he's a father.

Or probably is - as...
By John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal | 04.02.2013

North Carolina's program of forced sterilization for social purposes shares an infamous place in history with the eugenics movement elsewhere...