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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 Daily Mail, Daily Mail | 02.17.2009

Forensic experts will soon be able to reconstruct facial features and skin just by reading DNA, U.S. scientists said.

'Forensic...

By Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer | 02.17.2009
If you're not a woman of child-bearing age, you may never have heard of egg freezing.

But this form of...
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 02.14.2009
When the identity of Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor was made public this week, the Internet lit up with angry commentary...
By Bobby Jordan, The Times (South Africa) | 02.14.2009

An attempt to patent genetic material donated by rural African communities has sparked a global scientific rumpus.

South African researchers...

By Sam Lister, The TImes | 02.13.2009
A British embryologist who worked for the doctor whose fertility treatment led to the birth of octuplets said yesterday that...
By Kimi Yoshino, Jessica Garrison and Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 02.13.2009
A few months after Dr. Michael Kamrava helped Nadya Suleman become pregnant with octuplets, he transferred at least seven embryos...
By Adam Feuerstein, TheStreet.com | 02.13.2009
A surefire way to ensure some measure of public enmity is make a public recommendation to short a stem-cell stock...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 02.13.2009
The online advertisement from a Canadian woman identified only as Beth does not mince words. She has five human embryos...