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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 Gina Maranto , New York Times | 08.28.2002
Book review of Gregory Stock, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future.

GREGORY STOCK has written an enthusiastic book in...

By Judith Levine, World Watch | 08.01.2002

Lo Que La Modificacion Genetica Humana Significa Para La Mujer
(y El Rol de la Mujer Norteamericana)

Judith Levine
Traducido...

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 07.25.2002

Ensuring Your Baby Will Be Healthy: Embryo Screening Test Gains in Popularity and Controversy; Choosing a Child's Gender

Amy...

By Aaron Zitner, The Los Angeles Times | 07.23.2002

She had the name picked out since high school: Logann Rae, taken from a soap opera. She had two dolls...

By Richard Hayes, Worldwatch | 07.01.2002

July/August 2002

The new human genetic technologies are arguably the most consequential technologies ever developed. Many applications have great potential...

By Tom Athanasiou and Marcy Darnovsky, WorldWatch | 07.01.2002

July/August 2002

The atmosphere. The oceans and fresh waters. The land itself, and the fruits and grains our forebears bred...

By Bill McKibben, WorldWatch | 06.30.2002
July / August 2002

It's not as if environmentalists really need something new to worry about. The planet's temperature is...

By Michael Dorsey, World Watch | 06.30.2002
On a not too distant horizon, advances in human biotechnology may enable us to engineer the specific genetic makeup of...