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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 Amarnath Tewary, The New York Times | 07.12.2012
India’s caste system, in which people are born into a certain group, is now asserting itself even before birth as...
By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, The New Atlantis | 07.12.2012

In the United States, there is a vast market for sperm and eggs to enable infertile couples, single women, and...

By Amarnath Tewary, The New York Times | 07.12.2012
India’s caste system, in which people are born into a certain group, is now asserting itself even before birth as...
By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, The New Atlantis | 07.12.2012

In the United States, there is a vast market for sperm and eggs to enable infertile couples, single women, and...

By Linda Carroll, Today online | 07.12.2012
Jill and Tom Clinton knew they wanted to have kids after they got married in 2006 – and they weren’t...
By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph | 07.12.2012

The operation could offer hope of a normal family for 14,000 women in Britain who are born without a womb...

By Willam Rashbaum and Joesph Goldstein, The New York Times | 07.11.2012

A link between DNA from the unsolved killing of Sarah Fox, a Juilliard student, in 2004 and DNA taken from...

By Simon Leese, PHG Foundation | 07.09.2012
A new report makes recommendations for policy makers on the regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing in the European Union...