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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...

Star of David
By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 11.02.2020

There were 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents reported in the US in 2019—a record-breaking year as tracked by the Anti-Defamation League, and...

Halt sign
By Farah Qaiser, Forbes [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.31.2020

In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...

Henrietta Lacks
By Alexandra Witze, Nature | 10.29.2020

A major biomedical-research organization has for the first time aimed to make financial reparation for the continuing experimental use of...

Chromosomes
By Megan Molteni , Wired | 10.29.2020

IN 2017, RESEARCHERS at Oregon Health and Science University came out with some big (if true) news. Led by a...

Human embryo
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 10.29.2020

A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of...

scissors cutting DNA
By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.29.2020

Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...

Measuring a skull
By Aubrey Clayton, Nautilus | 10.28.2020

Cicely D. Fawcett and Alice Lee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In early 2018, officials at University College London...

By Ari Ne’eman, New York Times | 10.28.2020

Last week, the Supreme Court acquiesced to another attack on the voting rights of all Americans. In a 5-3 decision...