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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 Elizabeth Fernandez, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.18.2008
Infants conceived as a result of infertility treatments are two to four times more likely to have certain types of...
By Martin Johnson, New Zealand Herald | 11.18.2008
Sarah North has decided to have a newly available fertility test to see if she should start having babies straight...
By Simon Hart and Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph (UK) | 11.16.2008

An American professor is preparing to market a form of canine gene therapy, which would see dogs injected with substances...

By Jennifer S. Forsyth and Leslie Eaton, Wall Street Journal | 11.15.2008

Craig Watkins may be the only prosecutor in America who is making his name getting people out of prison.

As...

By Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 11.14.2008
Bay Area futurists and their fans are gathering Saturday in a coming-of-age celebration for the fledgling field of synthetic biology...
By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.12.2008

Women could put off having children into their 40s and beyond by having an ovary transplant, the pioneering surgeon behind...

By Carl Zimmer, New York Times | 11.11.2008
Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would spend a day without ever saying the word...
By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2008
Fertility doctors are doubling the pregnancy rate for childless women using a 'kinder' form of treatment.

The technique - In...