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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 Dan Vergano, USA Today | 04.17.2009
The National Institutes of Health will fund human embryonic stem cell research on cells donated by fertility clinic patients, but...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 04.16.2009
The era of personal genomic medicine may have to wait. The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to...
By David King | 04.15.2009
Dr David King
Director, Human Genetics Alert

In November 2008 the UK Parliament finally passed The Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Modern Healthcare | 04.13.2009

Each year, assisted reproduction quietly helps thousands of people in their quest for children biologically related to them. But the...

By Alexa Olesen, Associated Press | 04.10.2009
China has 32 million more young men than young women — a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime...
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, MSN Money | 04.09.2009
How much would you pay to know your past -- or your future? A number of new companies are asking...
By Rina Chandran, Reuters | 04.08.2009
Shabnam had dreamed of owning a home for years, but with few prospects for her husband, she followed the lead...
By Bella English, Boston Globe | 04.07.2009
Charitable donations may be down because of the recession, but another type of donation is up for the very same...