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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 Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 08.20.2007

The 36-year-old Illinois woman who died last month after being treated with an experimental gene therapy was infected with a...

By Seth Borenstein, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 08.19.2007

WASHINGTON -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 08.18.2007

Of all the genetically determined traits that we might one day hope to control, skin colour is surely one of...

By Ellen Rosen, New York Times | 08.18.2007

Katherine Holden's family had long kept what she called "a deep dark secret." When the family discussed its roots, there...

By David Brown, Washington Post | 08.17.2007

Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday they are bringing to doctors' attention the potential usefulness of getting a patient's...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 08.16.2007

Targeted Genetics Corp. is caught in the middle of a brewing storm: Jolee Mohr, a vibrant 36-year-old mother, recently died...

By Jim Fossett, Bioethics.net | 08.14.2007

We've been arguing for a long time here that states have been spending more on human embryonic stem cell(hESC) research...

By By Lila Guterman, Chronicle of Higher Education | 08.13.2007

After a patient died last month in a clinical trial of gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis, accusations appeared in the...