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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 New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.12.2009

You can't get something for nothing, especially when it comes to acquiring women's eggs for medical research. But it is...

By Courier Mail, Courier Mail | 07.11.2009

Vietnamese doctors who reveal the sex of a foetus to parents could lose their licences, state media reported today.

The...

By Nora Schultz, Technology Review | 07.08.2009
Genetic tests designed to weed out embryos that are unlikely to grow into healthy babies after in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian | 07.08.2009
Scientists claim to have created human sperm for the first time, in a breakthrough they say could lead to new...
By Alex Philippidis, BioRegion News | 07.06.2009
California's budget stalemate will delay until next year a key lawmaker's effort to change how the state's stem cell agency...
By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 07.06.2009
The U.S. government released final rules on Monday governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, loosening some requirements...
By Fiona Macrae, Courier Mail | 07.05.2009
Women who freeze their eggs to delay motherhood are being given false hope by some fertility clinics, an IVF expert...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 07.03.2009

HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books...