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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 Fox News, Fox News | 03.05.1997

As you may know, scientists have made advances in cloning, where they can reproduce a whole animal from a single...

By CNN/Time, CNN/Time | 02.28.1997

A February 1997 CNN/Time poll of 1,005 American adults, with a margin of error of 3%, found:

  • 93% felt that...
By CNN/USA Today/Gallup, CNN/USA Today/Gallup | 02.23.1997

 

If humans could ever be cloned, it would be a bad thing for humanity 87
Human cloning would be...
By ABC, ABC | 02.01.1997

If it becomes possible, do you think the cloning of humans should or should not be allowed?

 

Yes No...
By Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust | 01.01.1997
Human cloning should never be allowed and all research should be stopped.
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Cloning research should continue under strict controls...
By Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (New York; Pantheon, 1997) | 11.30.1996

A friend of mine recently questioned my interest in a custody battle covered on the evening news. A surrogate mother...

By Philip L. Bereano, Seattle Times | 02.26.1996

"If homosexuality is inherited, shouldn't it have died out by now?"- two women talking in a New Yorker cartoon.

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By admin Reuters | 04.13.1994
Two American scientists have applied for a European patent on "designer sperm" -- that which would allow a father to...