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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 L. Syd M. Johnson, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 01.19.2022

News of the first  transplant of a pig’s heart into a human was widely reported last week, raising hope that...

By GMWatch, GMWatch | 01.19.2022

A new analysis by A Bigger Conversation suggests that, in its haste to deregulate agricultural gene technologies, the UK government...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.18.2022

Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash

Biologists at several startups are applying the latest advances in genetic engineering to the...

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By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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When Wendy and Janet Norman...

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By Charlene Chu, Kathleen Leslie, Rune Nyrup, and Shehroz Khan, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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We have accepted the use of artificial intelligence (AI)...

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.17.2022

A world-first pilot of predictive genetic testing aiming to identify those at high risk of cardiovascular disease is under way...

By Jack Morgan, The Cavalier Daily | 01.17.2022

In a majority opinion written in 1927 for the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell...

By Arthur Caplan, Laura Kimberly, Brendan Parent, and Tamar Schiff, The Washington Post | 01.14.2022

Arthur Caplan, Laura Kimberly, Brendan Parent and Tamar Schiff are members of the transplant ethics and policy working group in...