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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 Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.19.2004

Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled plans to invest nearly $750 million to bolster stem cell research and other scientific efforts in...

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 11.18.2004
UC names five executives to oversight committee; advisory group is started.
LOS ANGELES - As the University of California named...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.18.2004

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ Italy has offered a compromise on human cloning that seeks common ground among U.N. member states...

By BBC News, BBC News | 11.17.2004

Opponents of human therapeutic cloning are beginning a legal challenge to the granting of the first UK licence permitting the...

By Australian Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Company | 11.12.2004

New reproductive technologies are tipping the sex balance of babies born in India further in favour of boys, an international...

By stuff.co.nz, stuff.co.nz | 11.11.2004

Labour MP Dianne Yates says she would still like tighter regulations controlling aspects of fertility treatments and the creation of...

By Irwin Arieff, Reuters | 11.11.2004
Talks at the United Nations appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a U.S.-led drive to...
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 11.10.2004
The most controversial aspects of Proposition 71 will have strict oversight, experts speaking at a Stanford University forum said Tuesday...