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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...

removing Rhodes statue
By Linda Nordling, Nature | 05.18.2021

Photo by Tony Carr via Flickr

In 2015, a giant crane hoisted a 900-kilogram bronze statue of the imperialist Cecil...

By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 05.15.2021

When King Minos of Crete was given a magnificent bull by the sea god Poseidon for a sacrifice, he could...

sickled blood cells
By Michael LaForgia and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, New York Times | 05.15.2021

When they carried the body of a 32-year-old Black man named Lamont Perry out of the woods in Wadesboro, N.C...

eugenics tree
By Audrey Clare Farley, Religion & Politics | 05.12.2021

Beth Moore is still making waves. On April 7, soon after announcing her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, she ...

baby
By Cathy Sakimura and Emily Galpern, Men Having Babies | 05.12.2021

The COVID pandemic has placed new hurdles to having a child through surrogacy, complicating international surrogacy in particular by restricting...

doctor's coat
By Lindsey Tanner, AP News | 05.11.2021

The nation’s largest doctors group Tuesday released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its own ranks and...

By Editors, Hastings Center Report | 05.10.2021

Genetic tests claiming to predict people’s intellectual aptitudes or how much education they are likely to get are readily available...

eugenics tree
By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian | 05.10.2021

Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame a wave of hardships early in her life to earn a medical degree and become one of...