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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...

Bare jail cell
By Jacob Stern, Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 01.27.2021

The victims of the so-called Golden State Killer lived in subdivisions and middle-class neighborhoods. They included a nurse, a medical...

Hospital room
By Kristen V Brown , Bloomberg | 01.27.2021

DNA-testing company 23andMe Inc. has launched a new tool that aims to predict an infected person’s risk of developing a...

Eric Lander
By Eli Hager, The Marshall Project | 01.26.2021

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In November 1988, at a secretive conference center in the...

DNA samples
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 01.21.2021

Over the past few years, the online DNA database GEDmatch has become a powerful tool for solving cold cases...

Egg freezing
By Danielle Pacia and Jacob Howard, Bioethics Forum | 01.21.2021

In the midst of the pandemic, life has been put on hold in a multitude of ways. Many women are...

By Justine Barron , FAIR | 01.20.2021

In the sticky conversations around rationing life-saving treatments and vaccines during the Covid pandemic, corporate media have elevated some experts...

Twin's eyes
By Katherine J. Wu, The New York Times | 01.18.2021

After 35 years of sharing everything from a love for jazz music to tubes of lip gloss, twins Kimberly and...

Biden on newspaper
By Bill Barrow, Seth Borenstein, AP | 01.18.2021

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a dig at the outgoing Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden introduced his slate of scientific...