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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 Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 09.29.2005
INSTITUTIONS GETTING GRANTS HAVE LINKS TO INDUSTRY Given drug company ties to universities and other institutions likely to get grants...
By Ralph Brave, Sacramento News & Review | 09.29.2005

"Congratulations, it's a Viking!" shouts a Danish sperm-bank advertisement in a recent fertility journal.

"Donor Egg Immediately Available," reads the...

By Life News, LifeNews.com | 09.28.2005

Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- While advocates of embryonic stem cell research are pushing a ballot proposal to spend state funds...

By Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.26.2005

Baseball fans around the nation have been conducting their own straw poll about human enhancement, and they don't like it...

By Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Post | 09.22.2005

WEST PALM BEACH _ Florida would give $200 million over 10 years to human embryonic stem-cell research under a constitutional...

By Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise, Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise | 09.22.2005

BOSTON -- Although there was little action at the first meeting of the state's newly-appointed Biomedical Research Advisory Council, members...

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 09.22.2005

The biggest question surrounding stem cell research in California right now isn_t whether it will eventually cure devastating health problems...

By The Economist, The Economist | 09.22.2005

MEDICAL discoveries often excite great hopes_and stem cells are no exception. They can transform themselves into other types of tissue...