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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 Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times | 06.04.2007

It was a single line from a longer e-mail message. But when read into the record by prosecutors at the...

By Reuters, Reuters | 06.02.2007

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has announced a crackdown on the country's growing fertility sector, vowing to rein in the illegal...

By Daily Express, Daily Express | 06.01.2007

Britain's leading fertility expert condemned the IVF industry, saying it had been corrupted by money and exploited women.

Robert Winston...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 05.31.2007

Originally published May 17, 2007

WHEN Oprah Winfrey talks, people listen - about 8 million every day. Which is why...

By MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.30.2007

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ...

By Sujatha Jesudason | 05.30.2007

By France 24, France 24 | 05.29.2007

Swedish authorities have granted three families the right to screen embryos to create a child who can be a stem...

By MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.28.2007

CHICAGO - Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers...