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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...

Genome sequencing
By Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., and Charles N. Rotimi, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine | 01.07.2021

The breathtaking progress in molecular genetics that has occurred over the past five decades and the transition to genomic medicine...

London
By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian | 01.06.2021

Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England for the first time under a consultation launched...

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 01.06.2021

Low-income commuters who rely on public transit face many challenges—multiple transfers, long waits, and off-hour travel—that aren’t measured in the...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 01.06.2021

Biologists tend not to discuss experimental results on a handful of cells and a single solitary mouse — too preliminary...

Singapore panorama
By Josh Taylor, The Guardian | 01.05.2021

Singapore has announced its police will be able to use data obtained by its coronavirus contact-tracing technology for criminal investigations...

running pig
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 01.05.2021

Every day in the United States, 17 people die waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. To address this crisis, one...

Empty surgical bed
By Erin Brodwin, STAT | 01.04.2021

After a tumultuous three years marked by halting progress and high rates of employee turnover, Haven — the ambitious...

Shobita Parthasarathy
By Daniel Sarewitz, Public Books | 01.04.2021

To converse with Shobita Parthasarathy is to be enveloped in two kinds of warmth: that of a generous-spirited, energetic, and...