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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 Kim Tae-gyu, The Korea Times | 02.16.2006
A senior researcher of the disbanded Seoul cloning team Thursday accused Prof. Gerald Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh of...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 02.16.2006
To fill a void in federal supervision, the National Academy of Sciences is setting up a committee to provide informal...
By The Economist, The Economist | 02.16.2006
THERE is no better time than the commercial orgy that is Valentine's Day to consider the baby business. So with...
By Mark Henderson, The Times (London) | 02.14.2006
BRITISH women are to be cleared to donate eggs solely for cloning experiments that promise new therapies for diseases such...
By Chosun Ilbo, Chosun Ilbo | 02.14.2006

Lawyers for the disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk on Monday decided to take legal action against Hwang_s one-time collaborator Prof...

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 02.14.2006

Six months ago, California's $3 billion stem cell research institute appeared to be an agency in denial.
Lawsuits prevented the...

By George Annas, Global Agenda Magazine | 02.13.2006

Developments in biotechnology have made possible species-changing and even species-endangering procedures, says George Annas. We urgently need a global governance...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 02.11.2006
Investigators at the University of Pittsburgh have concluded that Pitt faculty member and stem cell researcher Gerald P. Schatten committed...