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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...

DNA strand
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.14.2023

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can...

sperm around an egg in a beaker
By Alexis Heng, UCA News | 11.13.2023

In recent years, Singapore has increasingly leveraged new reproductive technologies to overcome the country's rapidly aging demographics and dismal fertility...

model of a heart
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 11.12.2023

A technique for precisely rewriting the genetic code directly in the body has slashed “bad” cholesterol levels—possibly for life—in three...

a monkey
By Helen Floersh, Fierce Biotech | 11.10.2023

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent...

a lecture hall
By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 11.10.2023

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...

graphic of a scientist pulling out a particular part of a strand of DNA
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register | 11.10.2023

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.

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graphic a human head with data points on top of them
By Emile P. Torres, Truthdig | 11.09.2023

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

poctures of Holocaust victims
By Herwig Czech et al. , The Lancet | 11.08.2023

Executive Summary

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...