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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 Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail | 04.27.2007

Two women are set to become the first to have their embryos screened for the faulty breast cancer gene to...

By Alexander Capron | 04.26.2007

It is a cliché to suggest that we are standing at the edge of a new age, but in terms...

By Benjamin Pimentel, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.25.2007

Biotechnology was the hottest sector in venture capital in the first quarter of this year as investors poured in $7.1...

By Bruce Goldman, Los Angeles Times | 04.24.2007

BIOPSIES are a pain. When they're medically necessary we put up with them. When they're not, most of us would...

By Marisa Taylor, Red Herring | 04.24.2007

Berkeley, California, home of leftist politics and aging flower children, is sometimes mocked as a hippie outpost. But the university...

By Sally Lehrman, Boston Globe | 04.20.2007

DOES A "genetic component" cause a higher rate of premature births among black mothers? Do black people carry certain gene...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel, Science | 04.20.2007

The newly issued International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research (G. Q. Daley...

By Peter Wonacott, Wall Street Journal | 04.19.2007

INDERGARH, India -- General Electric Co. and other companies have sold so many ultrasound machines in India that tests are...