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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 BBC News, BBC News | 10.15.2007

In theory, cells banked from one embryo could provide treatment for a sibling threatened by serious disease many decades later...

By Peta Hellard, The Daily Telegraph (Australia) | 10.14.2007
Brian Sheldon and Matthew Shaffer are one of several gay couples taking advantage of California's liberal IVF laws.

The couple...
By Anjana Ahuja, The Times (UK) | 10.10.2007
The whiteboard in John Harris’s office declares: “John is cool.” Many hold a different opinion of one of the most...
By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 10.08.2007

BARCELONA, Spain - When schoolchildren turn to the chapter on Christopher Columbus's humble origins as the son of a weaver...

By TERI SFORZA, Orange County Register | 10.08.2007

A generation or two ago, adoption was often a family secret. The rule was: Hush, hush. Don't tell. What they...

By Jim Downing, Sacramento Bee | 10.05.2007

When Australian researcher Alan Trounson visited the San Francisco headquarters of California's stem cell agency this summer, he couldn't figure...

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2007

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63...

By SOLOMON MOORE, New York Times | 10.01.2007

State lawmakers across the country are adopting broad changes to criminal justice procedures as a response to the exoneration of...