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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 The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Daily Yomiuri | 07.17.2012
At least 90 Japanese couples have traveled to Thailand to receive preimplantation diagnosis for sex selection purposes this year, a...
By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 07.16.2012
Two days after Debra Demidon underwent in vitro fertilization, she gained more than 30 pounds in fluid and suddenly was...
By United Press International, United Press International | 07.14.2012

TOKYO, July 14 (UPI) -- A survey of Japanese fertility clinics found about 30 percent of information on sperm donors...

By Telegraph Reporters, The Telegraph | 07.13.2012

Due to the falling cost of DNA testing Britain is on the cusp of a new era of eugenics, according...

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 07.13.2012

NEW DELHI: India is all set to weed out and check the ever mushrooming clinics involved in renting a womb...

By Cassie Murdoch, Slate | 07.13.2012
People take out loans to buy a car or a house or to send a child (or themselves) to college...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 07.13.2012
Genetic testing raises some vexing ethical questions, like whether it will cause unnecessary anxiety or lead to more medical procedures...
By Mayura Janwalkar, The Indian Express | 07.12.2012
Not much is known about Sushma Pandey’s death, except that she was 17 years old, died suddenly and had visited...