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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...

IVF injection needle next to egg cell
By Aoife Hegarty, RTÉ | 10.08.2026

Leading medical experts have warned about the sale of many "meaningless" and "dangerous" additional fertility treatments being sold on the...

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By Sandra Rose Salathe, Women's Health | 10.08.2026

When Eloise Drane spotted a small classified ad for egg donation in a San Jose newspaper in 1998, she had...

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By Han Yeong-bin, The Postech Times | 10.07.2026

Before Editing Genes: Questions Beyond Science
For technologies such as gene editing, with profound social and clinical impact, we must...

Image of DNA helix structure
By Alistair Sponsel and Brian Sutton, Springer Nature | 10.05.2026

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51...

ivf interrupted with a line
By Melinda Van Kerckvoorde, BioNews | 10.05.2026

UK patients have had their fertility treatment disrupted after a Portuguese fertility clinic was declared insolvent.

Ovom Care, based in...

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By Andrea Martani, BioNews | 10.05.2026

In July 2026, PET and ESHRE published a joint report containing the results of an international survey assessing public attitudes...

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By Charles Schmidt, Undark | 09.25.2026

In 2010, scientists at the University of Tokyo and other institutions reported a startling achievement: They had successfully grown a...

a poster showing eugenic idea "only healthy seed must be sown"
By Marcia Langton, National Indigenous Times | 09.22.2026

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on...