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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 Rob Stein, NPR | 10.24.2012
Geneticists reported Wednesday that they had crossed a threshold long considered off-limits: They have made changes in human DNA that...
By Damien Carrick, ABC (Australia) RadioNational | 10.23.2012
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Damien Carrick: Recently, the Family Court handed down its determination in the Ellison case. It’s the first time the...
By HealthCanal, HealthCanal.com | 10.23.2012

By some accounts, the Indian ART industry is worth $500 million to $2.3 billion.

In their upcoming paper, “Ethical...

By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.23.2012
When Anne Wojcicki’s son was a baby, she ran a swab across the inside of his cheek, collecting DNA to...
By Agata Nalecz, Reuters | 10.22.2012

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minster Donald Tusk announced plans on Monday to finance in-vitro fertilization treatment for couples, setting...

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 10.22.2012
Other women's eggs have not been kind to Debbie Vernon.

When fertility doctors determined Vernon's own eggs were kaput, they...
By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.22.2012
Can you imagine wanting to know whether your newborn baby will fall victim to Alzheimer’s disease decades down the road...
By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 10.22.2012
One could argue that stem cell research is currently the most promising area of biomedical research. It is no surprise...