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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 Turna Ray, GenomeWeb | 10.12.2011
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation have decided to ask the Supreme Court to take up...
By Osagie K. Obasogie and Troy Duster, The Hastings Center Report | 10.12.2011

The increasing use of DNA evidence has revolutionized criminal investigations. Over the past several years, DNA forensics—once thought to be...

By Ronald Bailey, Reason | 10.11.2011
Last week researchers announced that they had created stem cell lines using human eggs for the first time. The goal...
By Ronald Bailey, Reason | 10.11.2011
Last week researchers announced that they had created stem cell lines using human eggs for the first time. The goal...
By Anneli Rufus, Alternet | 10.11.2011

To offset law-school expenses, Ben Seisler spent three years donating sperm to a Virginia sperm bank. He recently learned that...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 10.06.2011
Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 10.06.2011
Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic...
By Editorial, Nature | 10.06.2011

When, in 2004, Woo Suk Hwang claimed to have produced a stem-cell line derived from an embryonic human clone, his...