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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 Reuters, Reuters | 08.03.2005

SEOUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Man can now reproduce his best friend -- South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they...

By San Francisco Weekly, San Francisco Weekly | 07.27.2005

Nearly nine months after losing at the ballot box, the conservative groups that opposed the California stem cell institute haven't...

By The Guardian, The Guardian (UK) | 07.26.2005

Healthy women could be asked to donate their eggs for cloning research in a controversial bid to speed up the...

By Jesse Reynolds, TomPaine.com | 07.19.2005

Recent developments—both technical and political —have once again brought stem cell research to the front pages of newspapers across the...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 07.17.2005
Heart-wrenching TV ads featuring people afflicted with incurable diseases filled the airwaves last fall, touting the potential of stem cell...
By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 07.17.2005

Just a half year into its troubled existence, California's stem cell research institute has already spent more than $2 million...

By Huntington F. Willard, Boston Globe | 07.14.2005
NOW THAT the Tour de France is in full swing, one wonders if the annual innuendo about whether or not...
By New York Times, New York Times | 07.13.2005

CHICAGO, July 12 - Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich signed an executive order on Tuesday making Illinois the fourth state to...