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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 Ángel González, Seattle Times | 07.28.2007

The death of a patient in a clinical trial run by Seattle-based Targeted Genetics is raising questions about a promising...

By Tan Ee Lyn, Reuters | 07.27.2007

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan have created a "womb" for incubating artificially fertilised eggs in their earliest days...

By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press | 07.26.2007

RALEIGH (AP) - The largest committee in the state House backed legislation Thursday setting rules for how research can be...

By The Hindu, The Hindu | 07.24.2007

Beijing: China has cloned the world's first rabbit from the somatic cells of the animal, allowing faster reproduction of genetically...

By Andale Gross, Sci-Tech Today | 07.24.2007

Eight months ago, Missouri seemed well on its way to becoming a national leader in stem cell research. Voters amended...

By Brandon Keim, Wired blog | 07.23.2007

Early in 2004, the high-profile biotech company Geron predicted that clinical trials of its first stem cell therapy would start...

By Terri Sforza, Orange County Register | 07.23.2007

More than 100 fertility doctors in dozens of states may have brokered unauthorized transfers of human eggs, according to the...

By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times | 07.23.2007

Earlier this year in Gujarat, India, I came across a most unusual kind of outsourcing: womb-rental.

Americans looking for a...