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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, New Scientist | 07.01.2009

As the 20th-century world recoiled from the horrors of Nazi Germany and the eugenics movement, we learned how economic, political...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Democracy (Summer 2009) | 07.01.2009
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 06.30.2009

Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their...

By Kate Devlin, The Telegraph | 06.30.2009
The technique, known as karyomapping, has the potential to spot virtually any inherited genetic disease.

It can also pick up...
By Emma Wilkinson, BBC News | 06.29.2009
Hundreds of British couples travel to the continent every month for fertility treatment because they cannot get it at home...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 06.25.2009
New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic...
By Kristyn Caddell, WATE 6 | 06.24.2009
Cash for birth control may sound unusual, but it's one woman's crusade to stop drug addicts and alcoholics from giving...
By Editorial, Sacramento Bee | 06.20.2009

Palo Alto developer Robert Klein II led the ballot campaign in 2004 to create California's stem cell research institute. He...