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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 Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 04.12.2012

JAIPUR: All clinics in India, involved in treating infertility through procedures like artificial insemination with husband's semen (AIH) or in-vitro...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 04.10.2012
In a provocative paper published this week, researchers say they have figured out a way to link a person's DNA...
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 04.10.2012

Texas’ proposed adult stem cell regulations, up for approval this week, are under fire for circumventing the Food and Drug...

By GEN , Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.10.2012

A majority of respondents to a recent GEN poll would like to see a moratorium on synthetic biotechnology products pending...

By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph | 04.08.2012

Bertold Wiesner and his wife Mary Barton founded a fertility clinic in London in the 1940s and helped women conceive...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 04.07.2012
The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later...
By CBS This Morning, CBS This Morning | 04.05.2012

A new report in Time magazine reveals the U.S. is the world's top exporter of sperm.

But why? It's largely...

By Catherine Lacey, The Atlantic | 04.04.2012

A few years ago, a woman I've never met had my child, but that's not exactly true; she had our...