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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 Becca Muir, Science for the People | 02.01.2021

Before Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman wrote Biotech Juggernaut, Newman helped Stevens fight legal action from an unexpectedly powerful...

By Zeynep Gurtin | 02.01.2021

More women in the UK than ever before are considering freezing their eggs, with the sharp rise in inquiries at...

Chinese military police
By Kristy Needham, Reuters | 01.30.2021

SYDNEY (Reuters) - BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from...

By Robert I. Field, Anthony W. Orlando, and Arnold J. Rosoff, Philadelphia Inquirer | 01.28.2021

At this very moment, someone, somewhere, might be exposing your intimate genetic data. They probably don’t realize they’re doing it...

DNA
By Søren Hough, SFTP | 01.28.2021

By 2018, it was clear that CRISPR had spun out of control. In the United States, one biotech company managed...

Wall Street data
By Matthew Ponsford, Neo.Life | 01.28.2021

We’re beginning to get a picture of the people who might have a goldmine in their genome.

The paradox of...

Baby genome
By Eben Kirksey, Sapiens | 01.27.2021

Surreal artwork in the hotel lobby—a gorilla peeking out of a peeled orange, smoking a cigarette; an astronaut riding a...

Virginia State Capitol
By Ellen Wayland-Smith, Boston Review | 01.27.2021

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When Elizabeth Catte began researching Pure America...