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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...

Gene therapy in lab
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 02.16.2021

A company has stopped its clinical studies of a promising gene therapy for the blood disorder sickle cell disease after...

Covid-19 vaccine
By Mihir Zaveri, The New York Times | 02.16.2021

Officials in New York City released new data by ZIP codes on Tuesday that they said underscored troubling disparities in...

Magnifying glass
By GMWatch Staff, GMWatch | 02.16.2021

UK farm and environment ministry DEFRA published an “Explainer” document on gene editing as a guide for members of the...

scissors cutting DNA
By Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Scientific American | 02.16.2021

Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based policymaking. We...

facial recognition
By Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker | 02.15.2021

In computer science, the main outlets for peer-reviewed research are not journals but conferences, where accepted papers are presented in...

Donor egg
By Diane Tober, Salon | 02.15.2021

*Names have been changed to protect privacy.

Janine* was raised by a single mother in the San Francisco Bay Area. With...

Speeding ambulance
By James Tapper, The Guardian | 02.13.2021

People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite...

Human brain model
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.11.2021

In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that...