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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 David Winickoff, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.17.2004
In a few weeks, Californians will be voting on Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. If...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 10.16.2004
The campaign to create the nation's largest-ever state-funded scientific research program is finding its strongest financial support among the multimillionaire...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.15.2004
Financing, not ethics, causing some to take closer looks

Some cracks are forming in what had appeared to be a...
By Clea Benson, Sacramento Bee | 10.15.2004
Though the California Nurses Association officially favors embryonic stem cell research, the organization Thursday announced its opposition to Proposition 71...
By Stephen Pincock, The Scientist | 10.13.2004
Observers say the outcome of a vote on cloning next week is too close to call

The United Nations (UN)...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 10.13.2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos...

By Stephen S. Hall, New York Times | 10.12.2004
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England - Every year, about 500 women come to the Newcastle Fertility Center, an assisted reproduction clinic in the...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 10.11.2004

A controversial measure that would provide $3 billion in state bond money to pay for human embryonic stem cell research...