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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 Angelique Rodrigues, Edmonton Sun | 10.09.2010

A Grande Prairie woman has launched a $700,000 lawsuit against the province alleging she was sexually sterilized as a 15-year-old...

By Jane Fae Ozimek, The Register | 10.09.2010

The French national police force – la Gendarmerie – yesterday stood accused of operating a secret and illegal database of...

By Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times | 10.09.2010

After it was revealed last year that investigators for Major League Baseball were using DNA testing on teenage prospects and...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 10.06.2010

When a B.C. couple discovered that the fetus their surrogate mother was carrying was likely to be born with Down...

By Kenyon Wallace, Ottawa Citizen | 10.05.2010

As a young girl, Olivia Pratten would stand in front of the mirror studying her nose, cheeks and mouth, trying...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 10.04.2010

Robert G. Edwards's breakthrough development of in vitro fertilization, which led to the birth of the first "test-tube baby," Louise...

By Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times | 10.01.2010

From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 09.30.2010

Scientists have invented an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a...