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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 Sandi Dolbee, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.17.2008

The possible has become the probable. A human embryo has been cloned by using a woman's egg cells and a...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.17.2008

A California company has brought human cloning research to a new level with efficient production of cloned human blastocysts -...

By Mark Henderson, The Times (UK) | 01.17.2008

Experiments to create Britain's first embryos that merge human and animal material will begin within months after a Government watchdog...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 01.17.2008
A combination of common and minor variations in five regions of DNA can help predict a man’s risk of getting...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 01.16.2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as...
By David Armstrong, Wall Street Journal | 01.16.2008
NitroMed Inc. is shutting down its effort to market and sell BiDil, the first drug approved for use in a...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 01.10.2008

Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from...

By DPA, DPA | 01.09.2008

Scientists eager to splice human genes with animal cells are seeking a public feedback on the prospect of such controversial...