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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 Leo Hickman, Guardian | 03.11.2013
Insung Hwang's business, according to his website, is "healing broken hearts". Specifically those of people who have lost a beloved...
By Stuart A. Newman, Huffington Post | 03.11.2013
Scene: A laboratory setting. A scientist begins constructing a new individual by combining parts from two different humans. A new...
By John Galloway, BioNews | 03.11.2013
Perhaps fortuitously, I started to read Maxwell Mehlman's book at the same time as Roy Porter's 'A Short...
By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 03.10.2013
Australians have started paying $19,000 to import eggs from American women under a new deal that will provide hope to...
By Melody Gutierrez, The Sacramento Bee | 03.10.2013
Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer...
By Sharon Kirkey, Edmonton Journal | 03.10.2013
In a world first attempt to achieve a pregnancy following a womb transplant, doctors in Turkey are preparing to transfer...
By Tanya Lewis, NBC News | 03.08.2013
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.

Japanese researchers have created...
By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 03.08.2013
Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of...