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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 Rafael Epstein, ABC News | 07.03.2008
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is looking into gene therapy, where an athlete's DNA might be treated to improve healing...
By Carl T. Hall, California | 07.03.2008

Nobody's perfect. Not even Tim McNeill. A three-time All-American gymnast and team co-captain at Berkeley, in April McNeill won two...

By Sify News, Sify News | 06.26.2008

New Delhi: Concerned with an increasing number of foreigners coming to India to rent a womb, the government is planning...

By Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Daily Inquirer | 06.26.2008

The country’s Muslim clerics and food experts said they were not yet prepared to adopt a ruling on whether or...

By Craig Borley, New Zealand Herald | 06.25.2008
Selecting the sex of babies goes back to the Greek Empire and will get cheaper, easier and harder to regulate...
By The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press | 06.25.2008

MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has ruled that Ottawa overstepped its authority when drawing up laws on assisted...

By Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, The Star-Ledger | 06.22.2008

Eight months after state officials broke ground on New Jersey's new center for stem cell research, the once-heralded $150 million...

By The Bureau of National Affairs, The Bureau of National Affairs [Quotes CGS's Richard Hayes] | 06.21.2008

Supersoldiers, superintelligence, superanimals, and supercomputers are a possible progression of today's genetic research, which is why an international consensus on...