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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 Kate Devlin, Telegraph | 06.05.2008

Earlier this year a team at Newcastle University created the first IVF embryos to contain DNA from one man and...

By Roger Highfield, Telegraph | 06.04.2008
Dolly the Sheep scientist Sir Ian Wilmut exclusively revealed to The Daily Telegraph last year his intention to adopt one...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Nature | 06.04.2008

Your Editorial 'New sources of sex cells' (Nature 452, 913; 2008), on the potential use of pluripotent stem-cell-derived gametes (PSCDGs)...

By David E. Winickoff and Osagie K. Obasogie, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 06.04.2008

Numerous articles and commentaries in the health literature recently have questioned the emergence of race as an increasingly powerful organizing...

By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.01.2008

Dr. Mark Hughes likes to startle audiences by declaring that sex may become outdated as a means of human reproduction...

By RNW's Dutch service, Radio Netherlands Worldwide | 05.31.2008
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's fourth cabinet has narrowly avoided its first internal crisis since coming to power in...
By Angela Stewart, The Star-Ledger | 05.31.2008

After Darrell Cooper was diagnosed with heart failure five years ago, doctors tried an array of medications to keep his...

By Lynda Hurst, The Star | 05.31.2008

In just 30 years time, 1,100 different species of animals - fully one-quarter of all known mammals - are expected...