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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 David Hamilton, Venture Beat | 04.17.2007

For what appears to be the first time, a major drug company has plunked down a significant equity investment in...

By Salem News, Salem-News.com | 04.15.2007

(SALEM) - Oregon State Representative Donna Nelson (R-McMinnville) proposes a state ban on human cloning.

House Bill 2662 would make...

By Roxanne Khamsi, New Scientist | 04.14.2007

In a first step towards creating artificial sperm cells, researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells...

By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times | 04.14.2007

Adrienne Domasin always envisioned someday holding her newborn in her arms. Little did she know that she would make history...

By Ken Kusmer, Wilmington Star | 04.14.2007

INDIANAPOLIS | An Indiana official publicly apologized for the state's role 100 years ago in pioneering state-authorized sterilization of "imbeciles,"...

By Takafira Mduluza, SciDev.net | 04.14.2007

Biomedical research must adhere to ethical norms, but in poorer countries there are considerations above and beyond them. In particular...

By Dana Milbank, Washington Post | 04.13.2007

For those who have always thought politicians are a sick bunch, this week's Senate debate on stem cell research provided...

By The Hankyoreh, The Hankyoreh | 04.12.2007

An international science journal on Wednesday deleted a paper on wolf cloning by South Korean researchers from its Web site...