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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 Bo-Mi Lim, Associated Press | 06.22.2007

From the crack of dawn until late at night, stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is at work in the lab...

By Rob Taylor, Reuters | 06.22.2007

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embyonic...

By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org | 06.22.2007

University of Michigan stem cell scientist Sean Morrison recently got a telephone call from a woman offering to donate her...

By Larry Rohter, New York Times | 06.21.2007

KYOWÃ, Brazil - As the Karitiana Indians remember it, the first researchers to draw their blood came here in the...

By Tom Hester Jr., Philadelphia Inquirer | 06.20.2007

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey awarded $10 million in stem cell research grants Tuesday that Gov. Jon S. Corzine hoped...

By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 06.18.2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine...

By Richard Hayes, The American Prospect | 06.18.2007

Melvin Konner's review of Michael Sandel's "The Case Against Perfection" [May 2007] reads like something written by Ayn Rand on...

By Ellen Goodman, Seattle Times | 06.16.2007

BOSTON - By now you may be forgiven for suspecting that science is tinted - if not entirely tainted -...