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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 Fred de Sam Lazaro, PBS | 09.30.2011

FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Minutes after delivering a slightly premature infant by C section, Dr. Nayna Patel was...

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 09.28.2011

It's 1969 and East Coast to West, there are marches and teach-ins and sit-ins and rallies. People are taking to...

By Gretchen Vogel, Science Insider | 09.27.2011
Mice carrying human genes are ethically acceptable, but German scientists who want to make transgenic monkeys with human genes should...
By Mandy Van Deven, Salon | 09.25.2011

Since the economic downturn, a growing number of Americans have begun making money off their bodies. Since the recession began...
By Holly Finn, Wall Street Journal | 09.24.2011

Get out the Screwpull! I've found another reason that red wine is good for you. A few months back, I...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.23.2011
Their key role in the arcane world of surrogate motherhood has received relatively little scientific examination, but it turns out...
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | 09.22.2011
A discussion about whether women who donate eggs for infertility procedures are adequately looked after in the process descended into...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.21.2011
A trans-Atlantic dispute has opened up between two camps of researchers pursuing a gene that could lead to drugs that...