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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 Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

By Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star | 01.16.2012

Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian [UK] | 01.14.2012
Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding...
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press / Washington Post | 01.12.2012

LONDON — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better...
By Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...
By Kim Severson, New York Times | 01.11.2012

ATLANTA — The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North...