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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 admin San Francisco Chronicle | 06.13.2005
IN APPROVING Proposition 71 last year, Californians agreed to invest $3 billion of public money in stem-cell research.

It is...
By admin Sacramento Bee | 06.08.2005
Senate can help reform stem cell program

California's Senate now has the choice of killing or saving a measure to...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.07.2005
Sacramento -- Directors of the California Proposition 71 stem cell program met with state lawmakers Monday in hopes of scuttling...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 06.06.2005
Citrus Heights lawyer Dana Cody is no stranger to controversy.

As executive director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation, she's...
By Newsday, Newsday | 06.05.2005

At 5-foot-11, Arnt has straight blond hair and blue eyes. He swims, runs, skis on water and snow, and works...

By Lee Dye, ABC News | 06.01.2005

Just a few years ago most scientists thought that the technical barriers to eliminating some inheritable diseases and producing designer...

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.30.2005
Oversight concerns shadow new technology

Rapid advances in cloning technology have prompted new warnings of lax oversight in one of...
By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 05.29.2005
WHAT'S in a name? When it comes to controversial science, a lot.

South Korean scientists recently announced that they had...