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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 The China Post/ Asia News Network , The China Post/ Asia News Network [Taiwan] | 02.24.2011

Taipei District Court Tuesday gave probations to three men who had imported women from Uzbekistan into the country to serve...

By Kiran Chug, The Dominion Post | 02.21.2011
Unacceptable death rates of laboratory animals have forced AgResearch to end its cloning trials.

But the science agency says it...
By Katie Worth, San Francisco Examiner | 02.20.2011
California taxpayers have spent $135 million in recent years building state-of-the-art research facilities on four private campuses for stem cell...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 02.17.2011
Nearly 20 percent of the nonhuman genomes held in computer databases are contaminated with human DNA, presumably from the researchers...
By Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon | 02.16.2011
Is it appropriate to involuntarily sterilize a mentally disabled person? That's the question a British judge is mulling in the...
By Tim Ross, The Telegraph | 02.14.2011

The secretive Court of Protection will rule on the woman’s case on Tuesday, in a rare open hearing scheduled because...
By BBC, BBC News [United Kingdom] | 02.11.2011

Hundreds of thousands of DNA profiles on the national database will be deleted, the government has announced.

Under the proposals...

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, The Los Angeles Times | 02.10.2011
California's medical board Wednesday rejected a judge's recommendation that the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving...