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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 Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph | 03.03.2010
Supermarket giant, Asda has announced it will sell the drugs without making a profit in order to help women with...
By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Sun | 03.03.2010
State senators voted Tuesday to put restrictions on the sale of human eggs and require warnings to women -- but...
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Slate | 03.01.2010
When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of...
By Luige del Puerto, Arizona Capitol Times | 03.01.2010
The Arizona Senate passed a referendum that would ban human cloning in Arizona, despite opposition from lawmakers who said the...
By Michael Bobelian, Washington Monthly (March/April 2010) | 03.01.2010
Three days before Christmas 1972, a twenty-two-year-old nurse named Diana Sylvester wrapped up her night shift at the University of...
By Eloise Gibson, New Zealand Herald | 02.27.2010
A proposal to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows to try to get the animals to make human...
By RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti | 02.26.2010

Leader of the Russian Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on Friday cloning should be permitted in Russia and proposed cloning...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, Biodiversity: The Newsletter of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (Winter 2010) | 02.24.2010

Synthetic biology is the rapidly developing field devoted to engineering life from the ground up. It has recently generated headlines...