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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 MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.26.2007

WASHINGTON - Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday...

By Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.24.2007

Google Inc.'s latest investment is all in the family, so to speak.

The Mountain View Internet company has invested $3.9...

By Liza Mundy, Washington Post | 05.21.2007

THE MEDICAL PRACTICE OF MARK EVANS IS LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF A MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSE, nestled discreetly among the...

By Daily Mail, Daily Mail (UK) | 05.19.2007

Scientists are a step closer to creating human-animal chimera embryos after the Government performed a U-turn over banning the controversial...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 05.18.2007

The state Supreme Court yesterday delivered a final, fatal blow to the legal challenges that have prevented California from issuing...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 05.18.2007

Since the 2005 discovery that the SLC24A5 gene variant plays a sizable role in human skin pigmentation, scientists have become...

By MARIA CHENG, Associated Press | 05.17.2007

LONDON — A new test dubbed "Pink or Blue" promises to tell parents the sex of their fetus six weeks...

By Joyce E. Cutler, Bureau of National Affairs | 05.17.2007

The California Supreme Court refused May 16 to consider a constitutional challenge to the state stem cell initiative, clearing the...