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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...

By Claudia López Lloreda , STAT | 07.01.2021

As more people turn to in vitro fertilization for help with conceiving, a host of companies is capitalizing on the...

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By Nicole Wetsman, The Verge | 06.30.2021

The World Health Organization released a guidance document outlining six key principles for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in...

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By Sabrina Imbler, New York Times | 06.29.2021

When Krystal Tsosie introduces her genomics students to the concept of biocommercialism — the extraction of biological resources from Indigenous...

By Derek Lowe, Science Magazine | 06.29.2021

The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about...

By Sylvie Corbet, AP | 06.29.2021

PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday definitively adopted a law that will allow single women and...

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By Jennifer Tsai, Slate | 06.27.2021

Jordan Crowley was born with only one shrunken kidney to clean his blood. As he gets older, his one kidney...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 06.26.2021

The gene editor CRISPR excels at fixing disease mutations in lab-grown cells. But using CRISPR to treat most people with...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.26.2021

Patrick Doherty had always been very active. He trekked the Himalayas and hiked trails in Spain.

But about a year...