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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 Joseph Pereria, Wall Street Journal | 07.12.2007

Breast-cancer patients carrying two well-known genes linked to the disease have the same survival chances as noncarriers of the genes...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.12.2007

A technique that could sidestep many of the limitations and ethical concerns that plague the production of human embryonic stem...

By HFEA, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | 07.11.2007

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By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 07.11.2007

Gene celeb Craig Venter is making new breakthroughs at a new institute. Let's hope it doesn't end up like his...

By Barry Kellman, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.08.2007

For $1,000, you soon will be able to purchase the text of your own DNA -- the unique sequence of...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.08.2007

FORGET genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort by engineers to rewire the genetic circuitry of living...

By Dana Goldstein, In These Times | 07.06.2007
The mapping of the human genome, first completed in 2000, vastly accelerated research into the genetic causes of human disease...
By Anna Salleh, ABC News (Australia) | 07.06.2007

An Australian researcher says demand for eggs for stem-cell research will put vulnerable women at increased pressure to sell their...