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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...

HIV particles (yellow) infecting host cell (blue)
By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times | 02.15.2022

Scanning electromicrograph of an
HIV-infected T cell. NIAID via wikimedia

A woman of mixed race appears to be the third...

Three disabled BIPOC strolling down a street
By Megan Buckles and Mia Ives-Rublee, Center for American Progress | 02.15.2022

Photo licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0

Studies show that people with disabilities are more likely than people without...

A "bubble baby" cured by this treatment
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 02.15.2022

Photo: CIRM

Twenty children seeking treatment for a rare affliction called the “bubble baby disease” today have some big-time, good...

Drawing of a heart
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 02.15.2022

Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator,
CC BY 2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons

The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept...

SFPD at street demo
By Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.14.2022

Photo of SFPD by Steve Rhodes (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 

Update: D.A. Chesa Boudin has dismissed the case against...

Close-up of baby's torso
By Miguel Sena-Esteves, The Conversation | 02.14.2022

Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.

Tay-Sachs is a...

Protest against sterilization
By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.11.2022

It’s been almost 20 years since a botched surgery while she was incarcerated, but Gabby Solano still mourns the bleak...

By Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Georgia State University Research Magazine | 02.08.2022

A century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that legal scholars generally consider to be among the...