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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 Reuters, Reuters | 02.07.2007

If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true.

In a...

By David Hamilton, Slate | 02.06.2007

As Congress hunts for ways to push its stem-cell bill past an expected veto, states are charging ahead on their...

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 02.06.2007

If people want to choose their baby's sex before pregnancy, should doctors help?

Some parents would love the chance to...

By Aria Pearson, New Scientist | 02.01.2007

The first international guidelines on human embryonic stem cell research, released on Thursday, echo public opinion in calling for a...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Boston Globe | 02.01.2007

JENALEE RYAN has just opened the Abraham Center of Life in San Antonio, Texas, billing it as "the world's first...

By David King, Genetic Crossroads | 01.26.2007
Editor's note:

Many consider the UK approach to human biotechnologies to be a model of comprehensive and responsible policy. Since...

By Chris Thompson, East Bay Express | 01.24.2007

The more details emerge about Proposition 71, California's $3 billion stem-cell research project, the more it all looks like a...

By Malcolm Maclachlan, Capitol Weekly | 01.23.2007

A University of California Berkeley economics professor has done an analysis of the financial returns likely to come to California...