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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...

newborn baby feet with ankle bands
By Hayley Smith, The Los Angeles Times | 11.08.2021

When Daphna Cardinale gave birth to her second daughter in September 2019, she and her husband, Alexander, were immediately puzzled...

brown eggs in a basket with a pink piggy bank
By Ellie Houghtaling, The Guardian | 11.07.2021

My eyes flutter open. I’m surrounded by four nurses holding me upside down. They shake me back and forth, urging...

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.04.2021

A few months ago, on the morning 23andMe Holding Co. was about to go public, Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki...

By Luísa Reis-Castro, Duke University Press | 11.01.2021

The First Bite

At the end of a day of fieldwork in Juazeiro, a city in Northeast Brazil, I sat...

Blue Instagram advertisement for Modern Fertility, reading "Want kids one day?"
By Rachel Kraus, Mashable | 10.31.2021

Photo: screenshot from Instagram

On Instagram, I scroll past a blonde toddler's second birthday, a senior dog that's up for...

test tubes of blood with purple and red stoppers in a yellow grid
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 10.28.2021

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

A few years ago, a young man...

By Fyodor D. Urnov, Molecular Therapy | 10.27.2021

A decade of progress in sequencing and in CRISPR/Cas technologies has created a situation without precedent in the history of...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.25.2021

Not so long ago, if you asked someone about the US Patent and Trademark Office’s practice of granting patents on...