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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 Steve Connor, The Independent | 10.05.2009
All research involving the controversial creation of animal-human "hybrid" embryos has been refused funding in Britain and one of the...
By RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti | 10.02.2009

Russia has decided to extend a moratorium on human cloning that expired two years ago by five years, the health...

By BBC, BBC News | 09.30.2009

The UK Border Agency "human provenance pilot project" is aimed at stopping people "swapping" nationality in the hope of remaining...

By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake City Tribune | 09.29.2009
Raising the ante in a high-stakes dispute, the American Medical Association has intervened in a lawsuit against Myriad Genetics and...
By Patrick Sawer and Leonard Doyle , The Telegraph | 09.26.2009

Rather than proudly taking the child home from the hospital, Mrs Savage has now had to hand him over to...

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | 09.25.2009
NEW ORLEANS - A suburban New Orleans hospital has suspended operations at its in vitro fertilization center because of concerns...
By Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times | 09.20.2009
Fatefulness about the survival of the species is not new. Religious thinking has end-time built in, and for most of...
By Stephanie Nolen, The Globe and Mail | 09.19.2009
The information is traded in whispers over cappuccinos in the cafés of South Delhi and in the locker rooms of...