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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 Jenny Johnston, The Daily Mail | 10.23.2010

A few days after his vasectomy, Alan Mitchell's GP phoned him to check on his progress. He warned Alan that...

By Olga Gumanova, Pravda.Ru | 10.22.2010

According to leading Russian geneticists, at the present level of development of biomedical technologies, we can produce a human from...

By Alice Dreger, Bioethics Forum | 10.22.2010

I know that when my medical school sends us all an announcement that we’ve broken a record for funded research...

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 10.20.2010

A novel treatment for depression may soon get the go ahead: injecting genes directly into the brain. It would be the...

By Dennis Hevesi, New York Times | 10.20.2010
Paul Miller, a lawyer who was born with achondroplasia — dwarfism — overcame discrimination because of his disability and became...
By Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann, Glamour | 10.20.2010

After tucking in her two children, Jack, six, and Andrea, four, Beth Goodman* settles in for another bedtime routine: saying...

By Polly Curtis, The Guardian | 10.20.2010

The government today delivered its promised "bonfire of the quangos", abolishing 192 government agencies, merging another 118 and substantially reforming...

By Charlie Dunmore, Reuters UK | 10.19.2010

The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing...