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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...

The California Flag
By Shefali Luthra, The 19th News | 09.05.2023

It was more money than Moonlight Pulido had ever held in her hands. Looking at the check — $15,000 from...

tram in Hong Kong
By Carina Cheng, Oliver Hu and Larissa Gao, NBC News | 09.04.2023

Photo by Alison Pang on Unsplash

Early this year, shortly after China lifted strict “zero-Covid” measures that had kept it...

money bags and DNA on green background
By James Tabery, Wired | 09.04.2023

You really can't understand all the excitement surrounding personalized medicine without knowing a little bit about Gleevec. And once you know...

He Jiankui delivering a speech
By Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker | 09.02.2023

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...

photo of a street in Greece with Greek flags hung between two buildings
By Sarah Marsh, The Guardian | 09.01.2023

Photo by Yana Marudova on Unsplash

Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...

Canadian lawbooks
By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 08.30.2023

"'Canadian Criminal Law, Review' vols. 2-10"
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GM plant seedlings in test tubes
By Claire Robinson, GM Watch | 08.30.2023

Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...