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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 Amy Harmon, New York Times | 10.19.2008
BOSTON - Is Esther Dyson, the technology venture capitalist who is training to be an astronaut, genetically predisposed to a...
By Brandon Keim, Wired | 10.19.2008
John McCain's recent statement on embryonic stem cell research was ambiguous in some ways, but clearly misleading in another: He...
By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post | 10.18.2008
BOSTON -- George Church wants to put his personal genetic blueprint online for all to see -- the sequence of...
By Kate Benson, The Standard | 10.18.2008
IT COST more than $3000 and was one of the more harrowing experiences of her life, but for Lesley Major...
By Toni Clarke, Reuters UK | 10.17.2008
BOSTON (Reuters) - The biotechnology sector looks likely to be hit by a wave of bankruptcies and failures as small...
By UN News Centre, UN News Centre | 10.13.2008

The permissibility of therapeutic cloning will be the focus of a United Nations ethics panel later this month when it...

By Sandy Kleffman, MediaNews | 10.12.2008
Four years after California residents captured worldwide attention by voting to spend $3 billion on stem cell research, many of...
By Thomson Financial News, Thomson Financial News | 10.12.2008

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Researchers trying to find ways to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells said...