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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 close up model of how CRISPR is able to work
By Jia Jie Chen, BioSpace | 04.10.2023

 

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

A zoomed in shot of a virus cell
By David Willman and Joby Warrrick, The Washington Post | 04.10.2023

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

A zoomed in picture demonstrating the process of IVF
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 04.08.2023

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...

An old poster depicting a group of women with the caption "stop forced sterilization"
By Deborah Hastings, Inside Edition | 04.06.2023

In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...

a macaque monkey with light brown fur facing the camera
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.06.2023

Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...

A group of sperm cells moving toward an egg
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 04.05.2023

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 41-year-old Dutch musician, may have merely been doing a kind and generous act when he...

A vibrant rainbow is painted onto a road. Two feet wearing white shoes are situated at the bottom of the picture facing the rainbow
By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times | 04.04.2023

Photo by Carlos de Toro @carlosdetoro on Unsplash

MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...

a law textbook and a gavel on a grey background
By Zoe Beketova, Progress Educational Trust | 04.03.2023

The Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales have published proposals to reform UK surrogacy law.

Their joint report...