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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 Casey Walker, Wild Duck Review | 05.31.1999
Richard Hayes Biography: is a doctoral candidate in Energy and Resources at U.C. Berkeley. His work focuses on long-term...
By Paul R Billings; Ruth Hubbard; Stuart A. Newman, The Lancet | 05.29.1999
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Abstract: Genetic manipulation of germ cells should be prohibited. Alterations of the genetic code...

By Rick Weiss, The Washington Post | 05.10.1999

BEAVERTON, Ore.--Tanja Dominko focuses her microscope on a glistening monkey egg recently retrieved from a female Rhesus's ripened ovary.

Nudging...

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 04.06.1999

 

 

 

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Has the cloning of sheep...
By Michael D. Lemonick, Time | 01.11.1999

Until just a few years ago, making a baby boy or a baby girl was pretty much a hit-or-miss affair...

By Sharon Begley, Newsweek | 11.09.1998

It is only a matter of time. One day--a day probably no more distant than the first wedding anniversary of...

By Robert Taylor, New Scientist | 10.01.1998

If you put your ear to the tracks, you can hear the train coming.

In conference halls around the world...

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 08.27.1998

 

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Restricting scientific research on human cloning  27 18...