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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 Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 12.17.2004
LOS ANGELES - The stem cell oversight committee, meeting for the first time today in San Francisco, already is embroiled...
By Francine Coeytaux and Susan Berke Fogel, Los Angeles Times | 12.17.2004
Francine Coeytaux and Susan Berke Fogel are co-founders of the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Stem Cell Research.


As the media...
By William Saletan, Slate | 12.17.2004
Whoever titled this week's conference on human germ-line modification "Babies by Design" was playing with fire. Maybe the event's host...
By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired | 12.17.2004
A real estate developer who spent $3 million of his own money to get the California stem cell initiative on...
By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.16.2004

Even before its first meeting, the board being created to direct California's $3 billion stem cell program is stirring up...

By admin Sacramento Bee | 12.16.2004
It's not very surprising that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state leaders have anointed Robert Klein II, a Bay Area...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 12.15.2004
Robert Klein was chairman of the campaign for Proposition 71, the stem cell ballot measure approved by voters last month...
By Spencer Michels, Marcy Darnovsky, Deborah Ortiz, David Magnus, Keith Yamamoto, Robert Birgeneau, and Ted Love, KQED Forum | 12.15.2004