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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 Richard Hayes, The American Interest (January - February 2008) | 12.20.2007

Some time ago a bright young graduate student was driving me to a conference at a noted Midwestern university...

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.20.2007

Persuading the private sector to accept a handout from California's $3 billion stem-cell institute might strike some as a no-brainer...

By The Times, The Times (UK) | 12.19.2007

One of the first children in Britain to receive gene therapy for an immune system disorder has developed leukaemia as...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 12.17.2007

It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to...

By Jesse Reynolds, Los Angeles Times | 12.17.2007

Re "Stem cell housecleaning," editorial, Dec. 12

Your editorial appropriately highlights fundamental flaws of Proposition 71, the initiative that created...

By admin Los Angeles Times | 12.12.2007

Even as California's stem cell institute hands out a heartening new round of research grants this week, ethical lapses at...

By Jennifer Swift, New Scientist | 12.08.2007

NOVEMBER was an astonishing month for embryonic stem cell research. First, Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon National Primate Research Center...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 12.07.2007
Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia...