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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 Nadine Gordimer, World Watch | 06.30.2002

Last spring World Watch interviewed South African writer Nadine Gordimer on her concerns about human genetic engineering.

World Watch...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Tikkun | 06.30.2002

July/August 2002

As Raymond Barglow's and Jeremy Rifkin's articles demonstrate, thoughtful people of good conscience and progressive politics may come...

By Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.17.2002

We remember Solomon as the wise man who once settled a dispute between two women who claimed the same child...

By Richard Hayes, Christian Science Monitor | 06.10.2002

After a year of intense debate, the US Senate is set to vote on human cloning. The two constituencies most...

By Richard Hayes, Seattle Times | 06.03.2002

Cloning and the new technologies of human genetic modification are among the most powerful and consequential technologies ever developed. If...

By Herr Joschka Fischer | 06.03.2002
 

Towards a Global Bioethic?

Herr Joschka Fischer, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs,

Prepared for the Franco-German Forum, Federal...

By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times | 05.10.2002

Forty Nobel laureates and patient-advocacy groups have lobbied senators to allow human cloning for medical research.

Thomas Okarma, too, has...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.06.2002

Do you favor or oppose each of the following? How about...
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cloning of endangered species to...