News

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 Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews.com | 10.18.2010
Four decades ago, a majority of Americans told pollsters that the idea of creating a baby in a test tube...
By Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica | 10.18.2010

The Ohio medical board concluded that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and...

By Chris Merritt, The Australian | 10.15.2010

The federal government has endorsed plans for a major overhaul of the way law enforcement agencies and testing labs deal...

By Jeremy Laurance, The Independent (UK) | 10.14.2010

No area of medicine has advanced more rapidly, nor created more controversy, than the treatment of infertility. In the 32...

By Susan Perry, MinnPost.com | 10.14.2010

This week, the directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 10.13.2010
Women are delaying childbirth until later and later in life partly because they have an exaggerated belief that fertility treatments...
By Josephine Johnston, The Scientist | 10.13.2010

It’s hard not to feel sorry for American embryonic stem cell (ESC) researchers. Over the dozen years since the cells...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 10.11.2010

Doctors have injected millions of human embryonic stem cells into a patient partially paralyzed by a spinal cord injury, marking...