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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 David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 11.28.2010

Lured by visions of nearly magical medical solutions for everything from cancer to Alzheimer's, California voters six years ago approved...

By AP, Associated Press | 11.24.2010

President Obama on Wednesday ordered a vast review to ensure the ethical treatment of people who take part in research...

By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 11.23.2010

This past weekend supplied several different examples of the way that commercial prospects affect important decisions about scientific research. What...

By Suzanne Bohan, Contra Costa Times | 11.21.2010

Stanford University researcher Thomas Jaramillo is overseeing a million-dollar research project that explores ways to create liquid fuel from sunlight...

By CBS News, CBS News | 11.21.2010

For generations, scientists have wrestled with the idea of creating new forms of life in the laboratory. Now that age...

By Jerry Markon, Washington Post | 11.18.2010

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reversing a controversial Bush administration policy under which numerous defendants have waived their...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 11.17.2010

A presidential bioethics commission concluded this week that the U.S. government should not clamp down too hard on research on...

By Nanowerk News, Nanowerk News | 11.15.2010

The European Commission has released their new report "Europeans and biotechnology in 2010 – Winds of change?" (pdf). This latest...