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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...

Voting by mail
By Terry McSweeney, NBC Bay Area [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.04.2020

Proposition 14 on the November ballot asks voters to approve $5.5 billion to continue funding stem cell research in California...

Reproductive surgery
By Gabriela Salas, National Women's Health Network | 10.02.2020

On September 15, 2020, a whistle-blower complaint alleged that immigrant women in a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

rainbow flag drawn on inside of white wrist
By Oliver Carroll, The Independent | 10.02.2020

Russian authorities have warned of the arrest of gay men who have fathered children to surrogate mothers, firing what appears...

Horse eye
By Sarah Radford , Horse & Hound | 10.02.2020

Researchers in Argentina have produced what is believed to be the world’s first genetically edited horse embryo.

The team worked...

Home DNA testing
By Caitlin Harrington, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.02.2020

WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...

2020 elections
By Guardian Editorial, San Francisco Bay Guardian [cites CGS] | 10.01.2020

We were for Bernie. We think he would have won in 2016 and would win this year.

But it’s not...

Pig
By Amanda Heidt, TheScientist | 10.01.2020

Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and...