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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 BBC News, BBC News | 07.12.2006

Choosing the sex of babies for social reasons will be banned, Health Minister Caroline Flint has said.
The government intends...

By Cathy Young, Boston Globe | 07.10.2006
With everything else that's happening in the world today, debates about whether humanity should embrace as yet nonexistent technologies that...
By Peter Aldhous and Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 07.01.2006
WERE she still with us, the most famous sheep in history would doubtless celebrate her 10th birthday on 5 July...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.01.2006

"STUPENDOUS" and "mind-boggling" were just two reactions to the birth of Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell...

By Eurobarometer, Eurobarometer | 07.01.2006

 

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By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 06.30.2006
Senate leaders from both parties agreed yesterday to schedule a vote on a package of bills that would loosen President...
By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 06.30.2006
A proposal that would let the state share in any profits that result from its $3 billion stem-cell research grants...
By Jeannette Moninger, Parents | 06.30.2006

Jennifer Merrill Thompson was confident the baby she was carrying -- her second -- was a girl. After all, the...