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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 Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 11.16.2005
IT'S CLOSE TO impossible these days to avoid the debate over the ethics of stem cell research. George W. Bush...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.15.2005
A global consortium designed to pursue a controversial type of stem cell research involving cloned embryos is collapsing amid ethical...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.15.2005

The debate over stem cell research soon could be coming to your local grocery store parking lots, shopping centers and...

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 11.14.2005

Police have caught 20 women and four brokers on charges of trading in human ova.

Trading in human ova is...

By Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal | 11.14.2005
THE BREAKUP of a U.S.-Korean scientific partnership on Friday may derail what supporters had hoped would become a promising source...
By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.13.2005

NOW THAT California taxpayers know that the $3 billion ($6 billion with debt service) that they voted in 2004 to...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.12.2005
Alleged Ethical Breaches By South Korean Cited

A leading University of Pittsburgh researcher on embryonic stem cells said yesterday that...
By Inter Press Service, Inter Press Service | 11.08.2005

A recommendation by a British parliamentary committee to allow a couple to select the sex of their child under certain...