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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 Sandra Schulz, Der Spiegel | 09.25.2008

Manji has six mothers. She's a healthy baby girl, weighing in at three kilograms (6 lbs. 10 oz.), with dark...

By Ayelet Bechar, Forward | 09.25.2008
A small but growing number of Jewish Israeli women are traveling to the United States to donate their eggs to...
By Megha Satyanarayana, Detroit Free Press | 09.24.2008

Ryan Dinkgrave lived a carefree life in Livonia until he was diagnosed with type I diabetes at age 10. Suddenly...

By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, MSN Money | 09.23.2008

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The convention hall at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's 2007 annual meeting, in...

By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 09.23.2008
Three more patients treated with an experimental gene therapy approach have reported better vision, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in...
By Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press | 09.22.2008
Some of the nation's top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will...
By Miguel Helft, New York Times | 09.18.2008
Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, said Thursday that he has a gene mutation that increases his likelihood of contracting Parkinson’s...
By Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 09.18.2008
Stem Cells Enter the Presidential Election; Doublespeak Follows

We continue to hope that stem cell research won't be used as...