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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 PS, The Copenhagen Post | 12.03.2012
Fertility clinics are demanding that the government change the law and allow greater compensation for egg donations, according to Berlingske...
By James P. Evans and Jonathan S. Berg, The Scientist | 12.01.2012
Whole genome sequencing is unlikely to become a routine part of medicine anytime soon.

In this era of plummeting DNA...
By Peter Stanners, The Copenhagen Post | 12.01.2012
A serial rapist on the island of Funen has so far attacked two girls. DNA samples from the attacks confirm...
By Jim Hawkins, The Huffington Post | 12.01.2012
People who study the fertility business have been concerned for years over the fact that racial minorities utilize fertility treatments...
By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters | 11.30.2012
Nov 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a...
By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 11.30.2012
OVARIAN tissue transplants could be used like egg-freezing to preserve a woman's fertility into her 40s and 50s but IVF...
By Steven S. Lee, The Harvard Crimson | 11.29.2012
A panel at the Harvard Law School Wednesday discussed the ethical debate over the use of embryonic stem cells in...
By George Estreich, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.29.2012

To be interested in questions of human enhancement, while also being a sucker for Hollywood blockbusters about superheroes, makes for...