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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 Phil Galewitz, NPR | 01.20.2026

Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting friends...

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By Evelina Johansson Wilén, Jacobin | 01.18.2026

In her book The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson describes pregnancy as an experience marked by a peculiar duality. On the...

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By Alondra Nelson, Science | 01.15.2026

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in...

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By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience | 01.15.2026

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30%...

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By Daphne O. Martschenko and Julia E. H. Brown, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 01.14.2026

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

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By Paula Siverino Bavio, BioNews | 01.12.2026

For more than ten years, gestational surrogacy in Uruguay existed in a state of legal latency: provided for by law...

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By George Janes, BioNews | 01.12.2026

A heart attack patient has become the first person to be treated in a clinical trial of an experimental gene...

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By Andrew Gregory, The Guardian | 01.11.2026

Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at...