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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 Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 02.09.2011
Longtime Geron Corp. President and CEO Thomas Okarma has stepped down, replaced by Chief Financial Officer David Greenwood and director...
By Jamie Grey, KTVB.com | 02.04.2011
A Boise woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges of defrauding egg donors, according to...
By Jim Thomas, Slate | 02.02.2011
Here's a grim prediction to chew on. This biotech craze dubbed "synthetic biology"—where hipster geeks design quirky life-forms: That technology...
By Chris Sullivan, MyNorthwest.com | 02.02.2011
There are few things as personal as your DNA. It determines your eye color, your hair color, your body type...
By Sumitra Deb Roy, The Times of India | 02.02.2011
It is an odd tale of two brothers. A pair of twins born to a surrogate lives stateless, while the...
By Anthony Baxter, BBC | 02.01.2011
Home DNA testing kits are going on sale in Boots stores across the UK later.

Until now, the paternity packs...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 02.01.2011
The term “reproductive tourism” first surfaced in Canada in the late 1980s as that country carried out an exhaustive survey...
By CTV News, CTV News [Canada] | 01.29.2011

The birth of a new baby signifies hope, promise and family.

But for an estimated one in 10 Canadians it's...