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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
By Joseph Dunstan, ABC News | 05.03.2021

Most women undergoing IVF treatment in Australia are paying for one or more add-on treatments, despite limited proof of their...

brain neon sign
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.03.2021

Six patients with dementia traveled to Mexico last year to be injected with a gene therapy not authorized for use...

By Karen Weintraub, USA Today [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.02.2021

For more than 30 years, scientists have followed a rule they imposed on themselves to avoid growing a human embryo in...

"stop forced sterilization" poster
By Cristina Escobar, Refinery29 | 04.30.2021

“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero, San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...

California flag
By Jill Cowan, New York Times | 04.28.2021

On Friday, the former state lawmaker Rob Bonta officially became California’s attorney general, stepping into a role that has served...

farmer holding crops
By Amy Maxmen, Nature | 04.28.2021

Photo by Heather Gill on Unsplash

On a hazy day in November, Hardeep Singh received a text message from the...

pipette
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 04.25.2021

BOSTON — Thomas Feldborg and Daria Rokina set off nearly every afternoon to explore this city. They leave from their hotel...

scissors and DNA
By Amanda Winkler, Freethink | 04.24.2021

The gene-editing system, CRISPR-Cas9, is truly revolutionizing medicine: in the future, it may help us eradicate ailments from sickle cell...