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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 Debbie Kitcher-Jones, BioNews | 10.03.2022

On 23 September the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published findings from its review of consumer law compliance in the...

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By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 10.02.2022

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As governments around the world are lobbied by industry with claims gene editing can deliver rapid...

a rainbow of vials with DNA in them
By Grace Wade, New Scientist | 09.29.2022

Genetic tests that predict the efficacy of certain cancer treatments aren’t as effective for people of African or Asian ancestry...

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By Tanya A. Christian, EBONY | 09.28.2022

In October of 1990 the U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook what...

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By Nature Editors, Nature | 09.28.2022

In 1904, Nature printed a speech about eugenics by the statistician Francis Galton. One of the foremost scientists of his...

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By GMWatch, GMWatch | 09.28.2022

Growing failure of Roundup Ready crops provides opportunity to phase them out and adopt new methods and technologies

The cultivation...

Woolly mammoth
By Daniel Boguslaw, The Intercept | 09.28.2022

As a rapidly advancing climate emergency turns the planet ever hotter, the Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has a vision: “To...

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By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times | 09.26.2022

The American history curriculum — if you can even call it that — is a slippery thing. Unlike many other...