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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 Matthew Miller, Lansing State Journal | 09.07.2006
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University researchers have taken the first steps toward developing a process that could allow scientists...
By Liese Klein, CT Business News Journal | 09.04.2006
More than 70 researchers are in the running for state stem-cell research funds, the state's Department of Health says, and...
By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 09.03.2006
As Chad Kingsbury watches his daughter playing in the sandbox behind their suburban Chicago house, the thought that has flashed...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Mother Jones | 08.31.2006

Both "Breeder Reaction" and "Souls on Ice" begin to tackle the profound issues and difficult questions raised by new human...

By By Robert Bazell, MSNBC | 08.29.2006
The campaign to generate hype kicked off weeks before the news broke _ as often happens when biotechnology firms claim...
By Osagie Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 08.29.2006

The recent breakthrough that may allow scientists to create human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos may move stem cell...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 08.26.2006
A landmark scientific report that was supposed to bridge the gap between proponents and opponents of human embryonic stem cell...
By Jesse Reynolds, Hartford Courant | 08.20.2006

Connecticut and a handful of other states are funding human embryonic stem cell research on their own, in reaction to...