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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 Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press | 07.30.2008
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Facing a human egg shortage they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs...
By Michael Kahn, Reuters | 07.24.2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty years after British doctors delivered the world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, fertility experts say...
By DPA, Deutsche Presse-Agentur | 07.22.2008

Dusseldorf - A German television documentary suggesting that genetic doping is possible in the Olympic host country of China has...

By Sally Lehrman, Scientific American | 07.22.2008
Ian Wilmut, famed for creating Dolly the cloned sheep, announced recently that he is abandoning the technique to concentrate on...
By Alex Philippidis, BioRegion News | 07.21.2008
The California state Senator who authored a governance and drug-access bill opposed by the state's stem-cell agency told BioRegion News...
By Jason Felch and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times | 07.20.2008
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 07.20.2008
Jeffrey Gulcher had no reason to think much about prostate cancer. He was just 48, and the disease typically strikes...
By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday | 07.18.2008
Over the next few generations, the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) may become as common as amniocentesis, predicted David...