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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 Pallavi Gogoi, BusinessWeek | 03.08.2007

It's a cold February morning, and a thin layer of snow covers the ground at the Simplot ranch in Grand...

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 03.06.2007

KEVIN MANNIX is a salesman and entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, a husband, father of two and the son of...

By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune | 03.05.2007

With its row of nubile women, the eye-catching ad on CTA buses and trains could easily be mistaken for promoting...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 03.03.2007

The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to...

By Carl Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.01.2007

State auditors have criticized California's Proposition 71 stem cell agency for loose contracting procedures and generous travel and meal allowances...

By NICHOLAS WADE, New York Times | 02.28.2007

An inquiry panel has found what it called "significantly flawed" data in a major stem cell paper published in Nature...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 02.28.2007

A performance review of California's stem cell institute says the fledgling agency needs to improve several policies, better document how...

By Kara Platoni, East Bay Express | 02.28.2007

In 1999, French investigators undertook a daring experiment. Their patients were eleven children with a devastating immune system disorder called...