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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 Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 10.22.2009

Last month marked the tenth anniversary of Jesse Gelsinger's death. While perhaps not quite a household name, Gelsinger is vividly...

By Jesse Reynolds, GeneWatch (Sep-Oct 2009) | 10.22.2009

Despite over a decade of hype, cloning-based stem cell research has offered little in the way of scientific progress. It...

By Jane Kirby, The Independent | 10.22.2009

British scientists believe they will be able to carry out the first-ever successful womb transplant within two years. They have...

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 10.21.2009

Egg freezing looks increasingly promising as an insurance policy for women who need or want to delay having children, according...

By BBC, BBC News | 10.19.2009

The government has dropped plans to give ministers wide powers on holding innocent people's DNA data on record.

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By Rita Rubin, USA Today | 10.18.2009
The "octomom"'s doctor has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the main infertility professional organization, a spokesman...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy and Politics; edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger (The MIT Press, 2010) | 10.16.2009

When bioethical deliberation confronts human biotechnologies, it often faces novel questions that recent technical developments have conjured into existence. Many...

By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay | 10.16.2009
Peter Orszag, the 40-year-old head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is reported to drink so much...