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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 Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.08.2006
Klein's letter draws reaction over politics
By Terri Somers
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 8, 2006

One day before voters went...
By Ted Agres, The Scientist | 06.08.2006
Leading U.S. senators are hoping to remove political roadblocks and pass legislation allowing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and...
By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe | 06.07.2006
Recruiting women to donate eggs for stem cell research brings scientists into new ethical territory where the standards are still...
By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe | 06.06.2006
Harvard scientists announced today they are beginning an ambitious attempt to create the world_s first cloned human embryonic stem cells...
By William Saletan, Slate | 06.04.2006
Heeeeeeere's Cat Man!

On a projection screen at Stanford Law School, an auditorium full of nerds stared at a picture...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.03.2006
Having survived 18 months on $22 million in donations and loans, California's groundbreaking stem cell institute now aims to raise...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 06.02.2006
California's groundbreaking $3 billion stem cell initiative was the brainchild of state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, who saw it as a...
By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 06.02.2006

In her latest effort to reform California's $3 billion stem cell research institute, state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, has introduced...