News

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 Alicia Chang, Washington Post | 03.18.2012
LOS ANGELES — The creation of California’s stem cell agency in 2004 was greeted by scientists and patients as a...
By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN | 03.15.2012

(CNN) -- Sixty-seven years ago, 14-year-old Charlie Follett was living in California's Sonoma State Home. As he did most days...

By Leo Hickman, Guardian | 03.14.2012

Earlier this week, The Atlantic ran an eye-catching disturbing interview with a professor of philosophy and bioethics at New York...

By John Eligon and Thomas Kaplan, New York Times | 03.14.2012

ALBANY — New York is poised to establish one of the most expansive DNA databases in the nation, requiring people...

By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 03.14.2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received a complaint alleging the Houston company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's...
By Brian Vastag, Washington Post | 03.13.2012

Genetically engineered microbes that might one day churn out biofuels, clean up toxic waste or generate new medicines need to...

By Ed Silverman , Pharmalot | 03.12.2012
Over the past month, a controversy erupted involving a stem cell company called Celltex Therapeutics and a newly hired executive...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 03.09.2012

Struggling to make ends meet as a university English major, Elizabeth could not help but notice the online classified ad...