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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 Peter Schrag, Sacramento Bee | 09.01.2004
Proposition 71, the initiative on the November ballot authorizing $3 billion in bonds for stem cell research, bids fair to...
By Ralph Brave, Baltimore City Paper | 09.01.2004
On Friday, March 5, 2004, the members of the Maryland House of Delegates' Health and Government Operations Committee gathered...
By Tim Radford, science editor, The Guardian (UK) | 08.30.2004

Britain's leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning...

By Suzanne Smith, ABC (Australia) | 08.30.2004

TONY JONES: Several private IVF clinics in New South Wales are charging couples $12,000 to allow them to select the...

By Tina Stevens, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.29.2004
Come November, Californians will vote on Proposition 71, a $3 billion initiative to finance publicly stem-cell research that promises cures...
By Julie Robotham and Deborah Smith, Sydney Morning Herald | 08.28.2004

O'Connell Street in Sydney is alpha territory. Queuing in the immaculate lift lobbies of the office towers near Circular Quay...

By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times | 08.25.2004
For a glimpse of what post-human athletes may look like beginning in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, take a look...
By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor | 08.23.2004
It would make today's "cat and mouse" detection of drug-taking athletes seem trivial. It would produce excellence without effort, challenging...