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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 Rob Stein, Washington Post | 12.14.2004
Kristen and John Magill adore all three of their daughters -- 11-year-old twins and a 5-year-old baby sister. But when...
By Megan Garvey, Los Angeles Times | 12.14.2004
The man who led the Prop. 71 campaign receives three of the four nominations to be chairman of the state's...
By Charles Halpern | 12.14.2004

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

I am writing to request you to take action pursuant to your duties under the Bagley-Keene...

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.12.2004

Some of the architects assembling California's $3 billion stem cell project are pushing for a competitive process to select a...

By admin San Francisco Chronicle | 12.09.2004
IT'S FAIR to ask -- as state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, did this week -- just what California will get...
By Chris Nolan, eWeek | 12.09.2004
Stem cell research initiative could be a boon for science, but business leaders are eroding public support by holding closed-door...
By Sheldon Krimsky | 12.09.2004

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I would like to focus on four points:

1) The discourse on science policy issues has been dominated by...

By Dorothy Roberts | 12.09.2004

Perhaps the greatest danger posed by the biotech agenda is its power to intensify racial injustice in America. Not only...