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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...

Disabled people socializing
By Laura Hercher, The Beagle Has Landed | 10.27.2020

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson discusses disability as an identity and the conflicts raised by genetic testing and counseling on Laura Hercher’s podcast, ...

By Jude Casimir, Wear Your Voice [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.27.2020

Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, complaining of vaginal bleeding. A mother of five children, Lacks was diagnosed by gynecologist...

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By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 10.26.2020

LOS ANGELES — This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.26.2020

The first president of the California stem cell agency, Zach Hall, says that he would vote against the $5.5...

Osagie K. Obasogie
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to...

Stem cell injection
By Pete Shanks, Capitol Weekly | 10.26.2020

At a time of budget crisis, Proposition 14 commits California to spending $5 billion (plus interest) that we don’t have...

California polling station
By Katarina Zimmer, The Scientist | 10.24.2020

Over the course of its 16-year existence, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Oakland has helped transform its state...

By Julia Creet, The Conversation | 10.22.2020

On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence...