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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 Robin Romm, The Atlantic | 11.10.2011
Being admitted to California Cryobank as a sperm donor is a bit like getting into Harvard. The bank accepts fewer...
By M.B. Reilly, Eurasia Review | 11.10.2011

Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined...

By Claire Bates, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2011
The number of women having multiple births due to IVF has risen dramatically in a decade, figures show.

There were...
By Robin Romm, The Atlantic | 11.10.2011
Being admitted to California Cryobank as a sperm donor is a bit like getting into Harvard. The bank accepts fewer...
By M.B. Reilly, Eurasia Review | 11.10.2011

Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined...

By Claire Bates, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2011
The number of women having multiple births due to IVF has risen dramatically in a decade, figures show.

There were...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.09.2011

Since at least the mid-1990s, the popular press in the developed world has been spreading the word that women’s ability...

By Nic Fleming, The Guardian | 11.08.2011
A test that rapidly identifies which genetic mutations have caused a cancer could pave the way for personalised treatments to...