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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 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2011

For years, Geron Corp. had claimed to be in the vanguard among California companies engaged in stem cell research. So...
By David Crary, Associated Press National Writer, ABC News | 12.06.2011

The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.06.2011
A new test might allow some women with the earliest phase of breast cancer to forgo the most aggressive treatment...
By David Crary, Associated Press National Writer, ABC News | 12.06.2011

The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.06.2011
A new test might allow some women with the earliest phase of breast cancer to forgo the most aggressive treatment...
By Michael Marshall, New Scientist | 12.05.2011

How do you publish a novel arguing that the unfit, weak or mentally infirm should not be allowed to breed...
By Michael Marshall, New Scientist | 12.05.2011

How do you publish a novel arguing that the unfit, weak or mentally infirm should not be allowed to breed...
By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011
"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...