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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 Andreas Seibert, Time | 06.15.2007

Everything about Shinya Yamanaka's discovery was right-except for the timing. The 44-year-old Kyoto University stem-cell researcher had found a way...

By Editorial, The New Scientist | 06.15.2007

Expect to hear a familiar refrain over the coming days: "There's no need for embryonic stem cells." It is the...

By Kelly Patterson, Checkbiotech | 06.12.2007

Hailed as the biggest, most controversial genetics breakthrough since the cloning of Dolly the sheep, Dr. Craig Venter - the...

By Scientific American, Scientific American | 06.11.2007

South Korea's disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is on trial for criminal fraud, is in Thailand to discuss...

By Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe | 06.08.2007

A year after Harvard University scientists began trying to create cloned human embryonic stem cells, they have been stymied by...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 06.08.2007

Applying a new genomic technique to a large group of patients, researchers in Britain have detected DNA variations that underlie...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 06.07.2007

Three teams of scientists said yesterday they had coaxed ordinary mouse skin cells to become what are effectively embryonic stem...

By Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times | 06.05.2007

Many men, faced with the prospect of going to the doctor for a fertility evaluation, will tell you: they would...