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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 Carl Zimmer, Slate | 12.07.2010

On Thursday, Dec. 2, Rosie Redfield sat down to read a new paper called "A Bacterium That Can Grow by...
By Kevin B. O'Reilly, Amednews.com | 12.06.2010

In the 1930s and 1940s, hundreds of German medical professionals took part in a euthanasia program that targeted children younger...

By Susan Perry, MinnPost.com | 12.06.2010
Eight University of Minnesota bioethicists have sent a letter to the university’s Board of Regents, asking it to appoint an...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.06.2010
Since its legalization in 2002, commercial surrogacy in India has grown into a multimillion-dollar industry, drawing couples from around the...
By Rory Harrington, DairyReporter.com | 12.06.2010
The UK stance was spelt out in a report due to go before the country’s Food Standards Agency (DSA) tomorrow...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2010
Is the re-election of Robert Klein as chairman of the California stem cell agency a foregone conclusion? A significant number...
By Eric Hoffman, Biopolitical Times guest contributor, Biopolitical Times | 12.02.2010
On November 16 and 17, President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues announced its draft recommendations on the...
By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology Today | 12.01.2010
In mid-May 2010, just as the spring semester was winding to a close, I opened an email from the Executive...