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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 Liz Ford, The Guardian (UK) | 09.19.2011
Creating better opportunities for women and girls makes good economic sense and increases development prospects, according to the World Bank's...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Montreal Gazette | 09.19.2011
The era of designer babies may be closer than most people think, one of Canada’s leading figures in reproductive medicine...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 09.17.2011
Women inseminated with a donor's sperm used to be advised to tell no one. Go home, doctors said, make love...
By Richard Orange, Telegraph [UK] | 09.16.2011
Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to...
By Elizabeth Reis, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 09.15.2011

My college-age daughter can earn $50,000-$100,000 just for being smart, beautiful, tall, and a Harvard student.  Yes, going to Harvard...

By Ian Sample, Guardian | 09.14.2011
Life forms have been created that carry strands of genetic material designed and built from scratch in the lab, paving...
By Laura Donnelly, Telegraph [UK] | 09.11.2011
Medical staff should be instructed to "withhold information about the sex of the foetus" according to a draft resolution passed...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 09.11.2011
Three cats genetically modified to resist feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) have opened up new avenues for AIDS research.

The research...