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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 Ilana Yurkiewicz, Science Progress | 07.18.2011
In July 37 parents and supporters in New Zealand brought a complaint to the International Criminal Court accusing their state...
By Ilana Yurkiewicz, Science Progress | 07.18.2011
In July 37 parents and supporters in New Zealand brought a complaint to the International Criminal Court accusing their state...
By Martin Beckford, Telegraph [UK] | 07.18.2011
An academic journal article states that “IVF cannot compensate for delays in childbearing” because of the biological effects of ageing...
By Dina Kraft, New York Times | 07.17.2011

Jewish and Arab, straight and gay, secular and religious, the patients who come to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv every...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.14.2011

Synthetic biology, the quest to hijack living systems and convert them to human-directed goals, is on the march. Last year...

By Michelle Chen, Asia Pacific Forum, WBAI | 07.11.2011

We often hear about sex selective abortion as an issue that is confined to India and China. New research suggests...

By Cynthia Dill, Huffington Post | 07.10.2011

Sitting in his ivory tower reserved for men only in Portland, Maine, M.D. Harmon lectures readers about the myriad uses...

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 07.08.2011

No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.

That's why, as technology improves...