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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 Durgesh Nandan Jha, Times of India | 12.16.2011
NEW DELHI: Should gamete donation be allowed in India? What about couples undergoing In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) donating spare embryos for...
By Durgesh Nandan Jha, Times of India | 12.16.2011
NEW DELHI: Should gamete donation be allowed in India? What about couples undergoing In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) donating spare embryos for...
By Krystina Steffen, SEO Legal News | 12.15.2011
With advances in science and technology, having a healthy baby is more of a possibility. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, also known...
By Azeen Ghorayshi, Mother Jones | 12.15.2011
The human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are pretty notorious. A woman carrying a harmful mutation in either of these two...
By Krystina Steffen, SEO Legal News | 12.15.2011
With advances in science and technology, having a healthy baby is more of a possibility. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, also known...
By Azeen Ghorayshi, Mother Jones | 12.15.2011
The human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are pretty notorious. A woman carrying a harmful mutation in either of these two...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 12.13.2011

Police with no leads can now predict the eye colour of their suspect from DNA recovered at the crime scene...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.10.2011
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting...