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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 Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times | 12.28.2010
A physician who rocked a UC Irvine fertility clinic 15 years ago, when he and a partner switched the frozen...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.27.2010
I've been thinking lately about the current excitement over the promise and potential of synthetic biology. The basic idea of...
By Sharon Kirkey and Janice Tibbetts, Canada.com | 12.22.2010
A Supreme Court ruling placing much of Canada's burgeoning fertility industry under provincial control leaves an enormous gap in the...
By Janice Tibbetts and Sharon Kirkey, Canada.com | 12.22.2010
A sharply divided Supreme Court of Canada struck down key federal powers to regulate the country's thriving fertility industry Wednesday...
By Amy Simmons, ABC News (Australia) | 12.22.2010

Research led by University of Melbourne demographer Dr Rebecca Kippen has found 80 per cent of people are against sex-selective...
By Denis Campbell, The Guardian (UK) | 12.22.2010

Women who have one embryo transferred during IVF treatment are five times more likely to give birth to a healthy...

By Jed Lipinski, The New York Times | 12.19.2010
It was a school night in November, and a ragtag band of self-appointed biologists was trolling the Web for discount...
By Osagie K. Obasogie and Keramet A. Reiter, Bioethics | 12.16.2010

We write in response to the conversation initiated in Volume 24.1 of Bioethics, which focused on the role of...