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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 Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet | 09.20.2007

In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one...

By BBC, BBC | 09.19.2007

They extracted early-stage sperm cells from mice, then turned them into cells capable of becoming different tissues.

Writing in Nature...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Colorlines (Sept / Oct 2007) | 09.19.2007

300 is arguably the most racially charged movie since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. In true post-9/11...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.18.2007

Where do moral rules come from? From reason, some philosophers say. From God, say believers. Seldom considered is a source...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 09.17.2007

The full story of 36-year-old Jolee Mohr's recent death in a gene therapy clinical trial for rheumatoid arthritis is still...

By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 09.15.2007
A pioneering Australian biologist who was among the first scientists to grow human embryonic stem cells in a laboratory will...
By Marcy Darnovsky, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.13.2007

Later this month, a committee of the National Institutes of Health will discuss the recent death of 36-year-old Illinois resident...

By Allen M. Hornblum and Osagie K. Obasogie, Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.13.2007

Any day now the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may decide to turn back the clock to a...