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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...

Empty hospital bed
By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.30.2020

The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.

Mr Brown, who was also...

Female immigrant with child
By Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler and Miriam Jordan, New York Times | 09.29.2020

Wendy Dowe was startled awake early one morning in January 2019, when guards called her out of her cellblock in...

Deaf person
By Emily Mullin, Medium | 09.29.2020

When Jessica Chaikof was born in February 1995, doctors at an Atlanta hospital placed a pair of headphones on her...

Public opinion graphic
By Christopher D. Wirz, Environmental Communication | 09.29.2020

Gene editing is an inherently wicked problem

Societal debates about the applications of novel gene editing techniques like CRISPR in...

Woman behind bars
By Alan Judd, AJC | 09.26.2020

Women detained in a South Georgia immigration jail told a congressional delegation Saturday they had been forced to undergo invasive...

View behind bars
By Steven Moore, The Washington Post | 09.25.2020

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General received a formal complaint alleging that unnecessary hysterectomies were being performed...

Native american woman
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 09.24.2020

Abigail Echo-Hawk can’t even count how many times she’s been called a troublemaker. It’s happened at conferences, workshops, and even...

Sad woman
By Adolfo Flores, Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 09.24.2020

Amanda thought she was going to the doctor for a simple procedure to drain an ovarian cyst, but when she...