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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 Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 04.27.2026

Why are babies born young? The most natural phenomenon on earth is actually hard to explain — at least...

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By Emile P. Torres, Truthdig | 04.27.2026

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, is on a messianic mission to bring about the singularity, the moment at...

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By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites Katie Hasson] | 04.27.2026

"Si on en prouve la sûreté, nous croyons que l’édition préventive du génome pourrait être l’une des technologies de santé...

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By Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe, Wired | 04.24.2026

Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.23.2026

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf.

The...

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By Sriparna Roy, Reuters | 04.23.2026

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Regeneron’s gene therapy ‌for a rare genetic form of deafness, the company...

"superbaby" flies above DNA double helix
By John Donvan, WNYC and Open to Debate [with Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.23.2026

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Some call it eugenics, an unsettling step toward a world of “designer babies” reserved for...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 04.23.2026

A STARTUP OUT of Utah, Paterna Biosciences, says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a lab and used the...