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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...

crispr dna
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.15.2020

The last thing a lot of people want to do these days is get on a plane. But even a...

Voter ballot
By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 12.14.2020

The recent close-call US presidential election grabbed headlines, but no less closely-fought was California's Proposition 14, also on the ballot in...

By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 12.13.2020

Amid a raging global pandemic, the field of gene editing made major strides in 2020. For years, scientists have been...

BGI logo
By Eben Kirksey, Financial Review | 12.11.2020

Simply Google “BGI NIFTY” and you will find a slick website from China’s premier genomics company offering new...

DNA
By Luke Shors, Neo.Life | 12.10.2020

Fifty years before we solved it, long before its information began filling scientific headlines and pharmaceutical shelves, and even before...

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 12.09.2020

A gene therapy for a rare form of blindness seems to work well – but the genes injected into one...

African-American man
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.09.2020

When Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe began to research coronavirus infections among Black and Hispanic patients, he thought he knew what he...

Jennifer Doudna
By John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 12.07.2020

Just weeks after I interviewed her this September, UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier were jointly...