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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 Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times | 07.04.2003
One of the most profound and layered questions raised by recent genetic advances is this: Do we as a species...
By Eric T. Juengst, British Medical Journal | 06.28.2003
The high hope of genetic medicine for 30 years has been to develop a way of using recombinant DNA techniques...
By Jesse Reynolds, TomPaine.com | 06.26.2003

If you've opened a newspaper or magazine recently, you've probably seen splashy ads for Botox, as part of a new...

By Edgar Dahl, Human Reproduction | 06.01.2003
Vol.18, No. 7

[Editor's note: In this brief article, German bioethicist Edgar Dahl raises and dismisses five objections...

By Ralph Brave, AlterNet.org | 05.28.2003

Did you have a nice DNA Day? And how was your Human Genome Month?

If you missed those Congressionally-designated celebrations...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.05.2003

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.03.2003
Cloning designed specifically to produce a child should be... 
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By Bill McKibben, The Guardian | 05.03.2003
For the first few miles of the marathon, I was still fresh enough to look around, to pay attention. I...