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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 Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.03.2011

In 2009, a Buenos Aires civic association awarded a prize named after American civil rights activist Rosa Parks to Argentinian...

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 05.02.2011
While federal officials said that analysis of DNA from several relatives helped confirm that it was Osama bin Laden who...
By Gardiner Harris, The New York Times | 04.29.2011
Government financing of human embryonic stem cell research can continue, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision was an...
By The Local, The Local [Germany] | 04.28.2011

The court in Berlin ruled that the German embassy in India was within its rights to refuse a passport to...

By Alice Dreger, Bioethics Forum | 04.27.2011

What tools does a university administration have at its disposal to shut up critics on its own faculty? The University...

By BBC, BBC News | 04.24.2011

It is described as one of the fastest growing areas of medical "tourism" although that is a word none of...

By Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post [Thailand] | 04.22.2011

Recent headlines about a company offering surrogacy services in exchange for money have brought the issue of assisted reproductive technologies...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 04.22.2011

A new approach to testing the genes of early-stage fetuses could radically alter the experience of pregnancy and parenting. And...