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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 Terrence Dopp, Bloomberg | 11.07.2007
New Jersey voters rejected a $450 million bond measure to fund stem-cell research in a defeat for Democratic Governor Jon...
By Roger Highfield, UK Telegraph | 11.07.2007

A mouse has befriended its mortal enemy, the cat, after scientists used genetic methods to tinker with its response to...

By RON WINSLOW, Wall Street Journal | 11.06.2007

What are the chances that you will get heart disease, or Alzheimer's? Or that you'll get fat? New genetic tests...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Philadelphia Inquirer | 11.05.2007

James Watson has left his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in disgrace. He's apologized for questioning the...

By Kay Johnson, Time.com | 11.02.2007

Vietnam is the latest country to report an alarming skew towards boy babies, one that may lead to vast societal...

By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.29.2007

A San Carlos startup is offering to create "personalized" stem cells from the spare embryos of fertility clinic clients on...

By Mike Brunker, MSNBC | 10.26.2007

A small group of researchers, entrepreneurs and horse owners is moving ahead with the cloning of horses, ignoring prohibitions against...

By Cornelia Dean, New York Times | 10.25.2007

James D. Watson, the eminent biologist who ignited an uproar last week with remarks about the intelligence of people of...