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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 BBC, BBC News | 03.28.2009

Police in Germany have admitted that a woman they have been hunting for more than 15 years never in fact...

By Constance Holden, Science | 03.27.2009
With dramatic shifts in both the economic and political landscape for stem cell research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...
By Kimi Yoshino and Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 03.26.2009
For Francisco Egea Cerezuela and his wife, the answer to their dream of having a child was found on the...
By ABC News, ABC News | 03.26.2009

Legislation that would allow human eggs and animal sperm to be combined has been approved by the South Australian Parliament...

By Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune | 03.25.2009
Karin Cohn carries a genetic defect that led a half-dozen members of her family to develop early breast or ovarian...
By Aidan Jones, The Guardian | 03.21.2009
Couples seeking IVF treatment are to be warned for the first time that their children have a higher risk of...
By Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 03.21.2009
Two California-based firms involved in pairing infertile couples with surrogate mothers have stopped paying surrogates, raising fears about the status...
By Matt Schafer, Southern Voice | 03.20.2009
In the one of the last votes on the last day for a bill to pass from the state Senate...