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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 Lester Golden, Medium | 05.10.2021

When people repeatedly announce who they are in their own words, listen. The core of Nazi ideology is racial darwinism...

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By Wynne Parry, Philadelphia | 05.08.2021

Think back to last spring. (You probably don’t want to, but humor me.) Those early months of the coronavirus pandemic...

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By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.07.2021

At the age of 38, Katherine Wilemon suffered a heart attack as she carried a ceramic pot into her backyard...

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By Hannah Thomasy, NEO.LIFE | 05.06.2021

On December 10, 2020, Elizabeth Ann made history just by being born. She isn’t a British royal, an American married...

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By Diana Kwon, Nature | 05.05.2021

Two pharmaceutical companies have halted clinical trials of gene-targeting therapies for Huntington’s disease (HD), following the drugs’ disappointing performance.

Researchers...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 05.05.2021

Photo by Zach Lucero on Unsplash

On April 21, 2021, a federal judge entered a sentence of jail time and...

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By Stuart A. Newman, CounterPunch | 05.05.2021

The Nobel prize in chemistry awarded last year to the biochemists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for the genetic modification...

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By Derya Ozdemir, Interesting Engineering | 05.03.2021

A new gene-editing tool has enabled Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering scientists to accomplish a feat that wouldn't...