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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 Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 10.04.2004
PROP. 71 SUPPORTERS SAY IT WILL GROW LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRY

What does $3 billion worth of medical research buy you...
By stuff.co.nz, Stuff (New Zealand) | 10.04.2004

Public consultation begins this week on proposed guidelines covering the testing of human embryos for serious inherited genetic conditions.


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By Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.30.2004
The brash young science of genetic engineering, like a newly licensed teenager behind the wheel, is driving civilization toward "the...
By Michelle L. Brandt, Stanford Medicine Magazine | 09.30.2004
Stanford physician Michael Lyons, MD, is not a stem cell researcher. But when the Connecticut House Speaker recently called him...
By Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 09.29.2004
DON REED HAS a favor to ask. His son Roman has been in a wheelchair ever since he was paralyzed...
By GeneWatch UK, GeneWatch UK | 09.29.2004

Today, GeneWatch UK has written to the chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), Suzi Leather, asking for...

By Patricia Reaney, Reuters | 09.28.2004
Scientists who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, have applied for a licence to clone human embryos...
By Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald | 09.26.2004

An Australian couple who created medical history and sparked a storm of controversy over their decision to have a "designer"...