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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...

a graphic of a figure holding a cup, from which a bubble shows sperm, and there is a form with a pencil next to the figure
By Emily Bazelon, The New York Times | 12.03.2023

A few years ago, when he was in his early 30s, Tyler Levy Sniff took a home DNA test he...

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By Matthew Gault, VICE | 12.01.2023

The Pentagon is looking toward a future where the U.S. deploys “super soldiers” directly inspired by Captain America and Iron...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.01.2023

That’s a real nice CRISPR cure you have there. It would be a pity if anything happened to it. 

Okay...

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By Rob Stein, Regina G. Barber, Berly McCoy, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.29.2023

In which we meet the pioneers of one of the most exciting — and controversial — fields of biomedical research: ...

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By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.27.2023

When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to...

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By GMWatch Contributors, GMWatch | 11.21.2023

Open letter to UK's FSA is published

A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society...

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By Carissa Wong, Nature | 11.16.2023

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a...

DNA scissors
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.16.2023

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.

The one-time therapy, which...