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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...

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By Charles Schmidt, Undark | 09.25.2026

In 2010, scientists at the University of Tokyo and other institutions reported a startling achievement: They had successfully grown a...

a poster showing eugenic idea "only healthy seed must be sown"
By Marcia Langton, National Indigenous Times | 09.22.2026

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on...

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By Ann E. Marimow and J. David Goodman, The New York Times | 09.22.2026

Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday refused to intervene in a high-profile custody battle that involved difficult questions surrounding surrogacy and...

graphic depicting genetic selection by a physician
By Gaia Ghirardi, Arno Van Hootegem & K. Paige Harden , Nature Human Behaviour | 09.21.2026

Embryo screening for behavioural traits is no longer speculative. If you want to become a parent in the USA today...

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By Miryam Naddaf, Nature | 09.21.2026

A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection...

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By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN | 09.18.2026

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set...

tree with eugenic ideology displayed
By Anna L. Philippe, Pop Panic | 09.17.2026

What does it mean when education is considered a threat to population? As an education student, I am interested in...

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By Karen Weintraub, Endpoints News | 09.16.2026

To better understand certain neuropsychiatric disorders, researchers at Stanford University have bred rodents that lack a cortex and hippocampus and...