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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 Lois Rogers, The Telegraph | 01.24.2010
Fertility regulators have triggered a new row over designer babies by allowing doctors to destroy embryos affected by more than...
By Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times | 01.24.2010
ALBANY — New York has become the latest of a handful of jurisdictions to permit a controversial use of DNA...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building | 01.23.2010
The US fertility industry is a lucrative and ever-expanding business, operating with very little by way of public regulation or...
By Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal | 01.15.2010

Four years ago, Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth, a gay couple living in New Jersey, set in motion their...

By Editorial, Investor's Business Daily | 01.12.2010

Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no...

By Kate Sikora, The Daily Telegraph | 01.12.2010
A blood test that can determine the gender and genetic abnormalities in a unborn baby as early as five weeks...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 01.11.2010

More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on...

By Jonathan Leake, The Times | 01.10.2010
Scientists have discovered that the DNA of babies conceived through IVF differs from that of other children, putting them at...