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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 Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 11.28.2012
Earlier this month, my colleagues John Conley, Robert Cook-Deegan, James Evans and I published a policy article in the European...
By Nathan Baca, KLAS-TV Las Vegas | 11.28.2012
LAS VEGAS -- Dr. Ralph Conti and Alfred Sapse were found guilty on all counts in federal court Wednesday of...
By Urmila Ramakrishnan, Fin Magazine | 11.26.2012
Although we may not have control over the end of the world, genetic counseling and selection will give us power...
By Sarah Guy, BioNews | 11.26.2012

The right to maternity leave in the UK will be extended to parents of children born through surrogacy, under proposed...

By Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph (UK) | 11.26.2012
Many couples were faced with waits or two or more years with hundreds forced abroad for expensive and risky treatment...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.21.2012
I finally got around to reading Hanna Rosin’s article, “The End of Men,” which ran in the Atlantic...
By Joel Kupersmith and Timothy O'Leary, Health Affairs | 11.19.2012

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick (and Wilkins) being named Nobel Prize recipients for discovering DNA...

By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 11.19.2012
Dr. Ernest Zeringue was looking for a niche in the cutthroat industry of fertility treatments.

He seized on price, a...