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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 Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...
By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...
By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
By Anuj Chopra, Foreign Policy | 02.10.2012
KOLHAPUR, India — Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible...
By BBC, BBC | 02.09.2012

IVF clinics have been told that no more than 10% of births should be twins or triplets by regulators.

The...

By Meredith Wadman, Nature News Blog | 02.08.2012
More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington DC.  But the Woodrow Wilson...