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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 Gary Robbins, Orange County Register | 05.16.2007

UC Irvine will become one of the few centers in the world with a major program in therapeutic cloning, the...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 05.14.2007

As the number of women delaying motherhood continues to rise, many fertility clinics are starting to offer a new service...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 05.13.2007
SARAHLYNN LESTER, 32, considers herself a supporter of abortion rights. She gives money to the National Abortion Rights Action League...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 05.13.2007

Humans have a unique variant of a gene linked with learning and memory. This may help explain how we rapidly...

By Pam Belluck, New York Times | 05.10.2007

BOSTON, May 8 — Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday unveiled a $1.25 billion proposal intended to help the state maintain...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 05.10.2007

DETROIT - Sarah Itoh, a self-described "almost-eleven-and-a-half," betrayed no trace of nervousness as she told a roomful of genetic counselors...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.10.2007

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 05.09.2007

It was 1959. Jules Hirsch, a research physician at Rockefeller University, had gotten curious about weight loss in the obese...