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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 Elissa Gootman, New York Times | 05.13.2012

At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing...

By Neil Sears and Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 05.11.2012

Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.

Leaflets were stuck...

By Neil Sears and Jenny Hope, Daily Mail | 05.11.2012

Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.

Leaflets were stuck...

By Kevin Bullis, Technology Review | 05.09.2012

Amyris, a company that uses synthetic biology to make alternatives to conventional petroleum products, recently decided to wind down...

By Kevin Bullis, Technology Review | 05.09.2012

Amyris, a company that uses synthetic biology to make alternatives to conventional petroleum products, recently decided to wind down...

By Sindyan N. Bhanoo, New York Times | 05.03.2012

In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that...

By Sindyan N. Bhanoo, New York Times | 05.03.2012

In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that...

By Harriet A. Washington, CNN | 05.03.2012

Editor's note: Harriet A. Washington is a medical ethicist, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the...