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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 Richard Hayes | 12.09.2004

Introduction to The Next Four Years, the Biotech Agenda and the Human Future, New York, NY 

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By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.08.2004

 

The $3 billion stem cell initiative that passed overwhelmingly last month holds surprises for voters who didn't read it...

By Megan Garvey, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2004
A state senator is seeking legislative oversight for the bond money approved by voters for research. The initiative's author opposes...
By admin San Francisco Examiner | 12.07.2004
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AS THE STATE prepares to start distributing grants and loans authorized by Proposition 71, the $3 billion stem...
By Daniel S. Levine, San Francisco Business Times | 12.03.2004
When life-science executives gathered for the California Health Care Institute's annual public forum just days after the November election, the...
By International Center for Technology Assessment | 12.03.2004
By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News | 12.01.2004
Of the small number of Americans who have any idea what therapeutic cloning is, the majority likely believes it essential...
By Deborah Kaplan and Marsha Saxton, Excerpt from Our Bodies Ourselves (2005 edition) | 11.30.2004

People with disabilities come to the genetic screening debate from a perspective that perplexes many scientists and medical professionals. We...