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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 Sarah Kliff, Current Magazine | 04.11.2006
Summer 2006 issue - Three years out of graduate school, Julia Derek has twelve kids. Or so she thinks. As...
By John Simpson, San Jose Mercury News | 04.10.2006
Remember the kid on the playground who threatened to pick up his marbles unless he got his way? Meet the...
By Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal | 04.04.2006
For U.S. scientists studying human-embryo stem cells, it is the best of times and the worst of times.

More than...
By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 04.02.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - What's in a name? Well, to the cash-strapped stem cell agency that Californians created with a 2004...
By John Wagner, Washington Post | 03.30.2006
Maryland will become one of four states that have agreed to fund stem cell research, following final passage yesterday of...
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times | 03.30.2006
SAN FRANCISCO _ When voters overwhelmingly approved California's novel $3-billion stem cell initiative, they counted on a promise spelled out...
By John Simpson, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.27.2006
If you pay somebody to build a house, you expect to benefit when it is finished. Probably you will live...
By Sylvia Pagan Westphal, Wall Street Journal | 03.23.2006
Nichola Grant underwent five in-vitro fertilization attempts the traditional way. First came weeks of daily hormone shots to stimulate egg...