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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 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 05.16.2005
There probably wasn't much reason to hope that California's new embryonic stem cell institute, the offspring of perhaps the most...
By Jesse Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.15.2005

The authors of last November's successful Proposition 71, the stem- cell research initiative, asked California voters to trust them in...

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.10.2005
Sacramento -- A new state finance panel took its first steps Monday to get some money flowing to the California...
By Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse | 05.10.2005

PARIS (AFP) - France inaugurated a specialised agency for approving research on embryonic stem cells and vetting organ donations and...

By admin Los Angeles Times | 05.09.2005
Not to apologize for Los Angeles officials, who truly screwed up by giving the state an excuse to reject L.A...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 05.07.2005
With the vote splitting along regional lines Friday, San Francisco beat out Sacramento and San Diego in the hard-fought competition...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.06.2005
Scientists from around the country -- and in at least one case from outside the country -- are enlisting in...
By admin San Jose Mercury News | 05.05.2005
FOR RESEARCH EFFORT TO SUCCEED, TAXPAYERS MUST TRUST HOW $3 BILLION IS HANDED OUT

Mercury News Editorial

Nearly six months...