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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...

Sonoma Developmental Center
By Editorial Board, The Press Democrat | 10.24.2021

Photo of Sonoma Developmental Center 
licensed for use under CC BY-SA 4.0 on WikiCommons

Staff Writer Phil Barber’s startling account...

image of coronavirus - a red sphere with green spikes
By Wingel Xue, Alexandre White, The Lancet | 10.23.2021

In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, early dashboards set up by the US Centers for Disease Control and...

Promotional poster for "Dune"
By Andrew J. Mongue and Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein, Scientific American | 10.22.2021

Few fictional creatures are as iconic or as synonymous with their franchise as the giant apex predators of the desert...

2 pigs behind a fence
By Jason Mast, Endpoints News | 10.22.2021

Steve Holtzman was awoken by a 1 a.m. call from a doctor at Duke University asking if he could put...

ancestryDNA test tube
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 10.21.2021

IF YOU’VE EVER spit into a plastic tube or swabbed your cheek and mailed your saliva away to learn about your...

Picture of Osagie Obasogie
By Lydia Sidhom, The Daily Californian [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.20.2021

UC Berkeley professor of law and bioethics Osagie K. Obasogie was elected for membership to the National Academy of Medicine...

Chaco Canyon ruins
By Sabrina Imbler, The New York Times | 10.20.2021

Photo by pedrik on Flickr

In 2017, a team of scientists successfully extracted the DNA of members of a Pueblo...

Elephant and woolly mammoth in the snow
By Victoria Herridge, Nature | 10.20.2021

Image by Russ Seidel on Flickr

Every few years for the past 20 or so, the story resurfaces, frozen in...