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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 Kevin B. O'Reilly, American Medical Association (amednews.com) | 07.03.2007

One hundred years ago, Eddie Millard was sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville after being convicted of petty larceny...

By Denise Caruso, New York Times | 07.02.2007

The $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific...

By Jamie D. Brooks | 07.01.2007

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By Osagie K. Obasogie, Genetic Crossroads | 06.29.2007

Much ink has been spilled over the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) recent recommendation to loosen federal restrictions on using prisoners...

By Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 06.29.2007

Here in the United States, political maneuverings around embryonic stem cell research made headlines throughout June. But this was little...

Injection of egg
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Online | 06.27.2007

LONDON (CNS) – Human embryos injected with animal cells, or chimeras, should be accorded human status under proposals to be...

By William Saletan, Washington Post | 06.25.2007

If you've been laughing at those Neanderthal presidential candidates who still don't believe in evolution, it's time to sober up...

By Reuters, Reuters | 06.24.2007

WASHINGTON -- Researchers at a U.S. company trying to push the margins of stem cell research said on Friday they...