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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...

stethoscope on baby's back
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.28.2021

Orchard Therapeutics this morning formally announced it was giving up on its life-saving treatment for the bubble baby disease and...

Plastic models of various stages of embryonic development
By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 05.27.2021

Image via Flickr CC BY 2.0

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), which bills itself as “the...

DNA in magnifying glass
By Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times | 05.26.2021

The decision of whether to have a child can be hard even under the best of circumstances. For those with...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 05.26.2021

The world’s largest stem cell society this week signaled a willingness to reconsider a long-standing restriction on laboratory efforts to...

And eight-cell embryo
By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 05.26.2021

The international body representing stem-cell scientists has torn up a decades-old limit on the length of time that scientists should...

A human embryo
By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.26.2021

For decades, scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than 14 days. The...

test tubes in rack
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.26.2021

New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human...

a black and white cow staring straight ahead
By Matt Reynolds, Wired UK | 05.25.2021

Laura Domigan is a chronicler of cows. Every biographical detail and pharmacological footnote could be crucial, so the biochemist has...