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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 Andrea Anderson, GenomeWeb News | 02.20.2009
Genetic studies of admixed populations are providing new insights into the genetic basis for the wide range of facial traits...
By Stephanie Nano, Associated Press | 02.20.2009
NEW YORK (AP) - The California fertility doctor who implanted the octuplet mom with lots of embryos was no lone...
By Natasha Singer, New York Times | 02.18.2009
As many American companies in the last decade have sent tasks like customer service and computer support to other countries...
By BBC, BBC News | 02.18.2009

A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the...

By Allen Goldberg, Los Angeles Times | 02.17.2009
Something stinks about reproductive medicine in Southern California, and it doesn't involve eight dirty diapers.

Recently, the Los Angeles-based Fertility...
By William Saletan, Slate | 02.17.2009
Is the era of designer babies finally here?

Every week, it seems, we're told that this discovery or that technology...
By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 02.17.2009
Over the past 30 years, in vitro fertilization has been reassuringly safe. Millions of healthy children have been born and...
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press | 02.17.2009
A Vatican official warned on Tuesday that advances in genetic testing were creating a slow but "relentless" spread of a...