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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 Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business | 09.23.2021

Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch

A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the...

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By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | 09.23.2021

A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion...

Lab grown meat in a petri dish
By Joe Fassler, The Counter | 09.22.2021

Paul Wood didn’t buy it.

For years, the former pharmaceutical industry executive watched from the sidelines as biotech startups raked...

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By Kevin Doxzen and Diana M. Bowman, Slate | 09.22.2021

Over the past decade, our ability to alter the human genome has rapidly improved, largely due to advancements in genome...

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By Tana Wojczuk, Slate | 09.21.2021

In the final chapter of her 1995 memoir of manic-depression, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison posed a question...

Office building with 23andMe logo
By Kara Swisher, The New York Times | 09.20.2021

Anne Wojcicki is sitting on a treasure trove of genetic data. Wojcicki, a co-founder and the chief executive of the...

By Marcia L. O’Connell, Zachariah I. Grochau-Wright, and Christopher T. Fisher, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.20.2021

The University of Pennsylvania’s medical school apologized last month for unethical experiments on incarcerated, mostly Black men, often without their...

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By David K. Johnson, The Great Courses Daily [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.19.2021

The film Gattaca is set in a world in which gene manipulation is common. When parents decide to have children...