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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 Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 02.13.2005
U.N. diplomats, deadlocked for years over the drafting of treaty to ban the cloning of human beings worldwide, open negotiations...
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 02.13.2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- Last fall, a group of pioneering scientists, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs sold Californians on the ultimate startup...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.11.2005
Neuroscientist would become interim president of enterprise

Zach W. Hall, a veteran neuroscientist, medical-school administrator and biotech entrepreneur, may soon...
By BBC News, BBC News | 02.08.2005

The creator of Dolly the sheep has been granted a licence to clone human embryos for medical research.
Professor Ian...

By admin Sacramento Bee | 02.06.2005
The National Institutes of Health took some long-overdue action Tuesday to ensure its employees are working for the public interest...
By Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 02.05.2005
U.N. diplomats drafting an international treaty on the rights of the disabled debated a possible ban on the abortion of...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 02.04.2005
Work on the campaign for Proposition 71 has led to more permanent employment for several former staffers.


Five people who...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 02.04.2005
SAN DIEGO - As a panel laid the groundwork for the state's new stem cell research agency Thursday, critics suggested...