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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 Chris Kaiser, MedPage Today | 04.19.2012
Children conceived using assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, may be at risk for premature cardiovascular disease, a small...
By Annie Burns-Pieper, CBC News | 04.17.2012

A Washington-based reproductive clinic is advertising gender selection services in a Canadian newspaper that targets South Asian communities, CBC News...

By Carl Elliott, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 04.17.2012
Why should students study bioethics at a university plagued with bioethical scandals? That’s the uncomfortable question here in Minnesota, where...
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 04.17.2012
When two Italian-Australian utilitarian bioethicists declared in the Journal of Medical Ethics that infanticide (or after-birth abortion) was morally permissible...
By Gethin Chamberlain, Guardian | 04.14.2012
Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News Blog | 04.13.2012
A committee convened by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) heard testimony on 10 April about shortcomings of the San...
By Minjae Park, New York Times | 04.13.2012
AUSTIN, Tex. — The Texas Medical Board on Friday approved controversial new rules on the use of adult stem cells...
By Joyce Hackel, The World | 04.12.2012
Journalist Natalia Antelava talks with Marco Werman about what she says is a secret program by the government of Uzbekistan...