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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 A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 12.14.2006

A new national poll conducted in the aftermath of actor Michael J. Fox’s televised appeals for stem-cell research shows that...

By Rebecca Vesel, Oakland Tribune | 12.08.2006

The president of California's landmark stem cell agency resigned Thursday, citing personal reasons, in a move observers described as a...

By Darshak M. Sanghavi, M.D., New York Times | 12.05.2006

Wanting to have children who follow in one’s footsteps is an understandable desire. But a coming article in the journal...

By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 12.03.2006

The meeting was almost over when Roman Reed steered his wheelchair to the microphone.

On the table before him sat...

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.03.2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- California voters, wooed by an aggressive, multimillion dollar campaign that promised cures to myriad diseases, overwhelmingly approved...

By Parita Shah, San Jose Mercury News | 12.01.2006

Actor Michael J. Fox and conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh pushed stem-cell research into the forefront of political dialogue...

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press | 11.29.2006

A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from...

By Anita L. Allen, Philadelphia Inquirer | 11.26.2006

The Annotated Mother Goose includes this nursery rhyme:

First a daughter, then a son,

And the world is well begun...