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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 Times of India, The Times of India | 06.08.2011

Under cultural pressure to have sons, some Indian immigrant women are using reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 06.07.2011
For a state agency that aims to define the term "visionary," the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — the stem...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Ms. Magazine Blog | 06.06.2011

As best as demographers can figure, the world is short about 160 million girls and women–equivalent to the entire female...

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 06.05.2011
The days of "sex-selection shops" in India are numbered.

The Union health ministry on Saturday asked Medical Council of India...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 06.03.2011
The event, on Thursday night at the World Science Festival in Manhattan, was a panel discussion called “Cancer’s Last Stand...
By Peter Foster, The Telegraph [UK] | 06.02.2011
The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, "Zheng", confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after...
By Barry Stevens, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 06.02.2011
On May 19, 2011, a door opened that has long been closed in North America. The Supreme Court of British...
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times | 06.02.2011
The medical ethics controversy that erupted when Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets two years ago took a decisive turn...