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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 Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Lindy Kerin, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News | 03.13.2010
The Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she would be very uncomfortable about allowing parents to choose their children's sex...
By Moscow Times, Moscow Times | 03.11.2010

The State Duma has renewed a temporary ban on human cloning in Russia, Interfax reported Wednesday.

The bill, approved in...

By Tara Bannow, The Minnesota Daily | 03.09.2010
Jay Cohn, a cardiologist for more than 50 years, was fighting a losing battle against heart failure in the 1980s...
By Richard Alleyne, The Telegraph | 03.08.2010

Doctors have struggled to explain why some people are more sensitive to and less able to tolerate pain.

Now scientists...

By Alan Travis, The Guardian | 03.08.2010
Government proposals to keep the DNA profiles of innocent people for up to six years have been rejected by the...
By Brian Ojanpa, Mankato Free Press | 03.06.2010
Annie Brown says she’s no radical, and acknowledges that in some ways she may be overreacting.

“But I feel I...
By The Economist, The Economist | 03.04.2010

Xinran Xue, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province. The wife was...

By Herbert L. White, The Charlotte Post | 03.04.2010
People who were sterilized against their knowledge by N.C. law now have an advocate.

State Administration Secretary Britt Cobb last...