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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 Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 02.05.2008
British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that...
By Jim Giles, New Scientist | 02.02.2008

The race to become the most powerful politician on earth is well under way, and the US is gripped by...

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 02.02.2008

"FEMALE sperm", "male eggs" and "same-sex reproduction" - whether these terms fill you with hope or disgust, a reproductive revolution...

By BBC news, BBC News | 02.02.2008

Health officials say they have accepted that the requirement, currently in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, would hamper vital...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.29.2008
Can a woman's period save her life years later?

A company called Cryo-Cell International says that it can - that...
By Colin Nickerso, Boston Globe | 01.28.2008

From what is now considered medical waste might be fashioned bio-treasure: stem cells able to form into any of the...

By Typically Spanish, Typically Spanish | 01.24.2008

The Spanish Commission for the Control of the Donation and Use of Human Stem Cells, a body which depends on...

By David Biello, Scientific American | 01.23.2008
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon swell to more than 1,000 as part of a new international research...