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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...

The Golden Gate Bridge
By Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.24.2020

Like MySpace, the Martha Stewart prosecution and American democratic norms, spending gobs of state money on stem cell research might...

Sterilization states
By Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee, Zora | 09.23.2020

Charmaine Fuller Cooper was outraged — but not surprised — when she heard recent allegations that a Georgia detention center...

Troubled black woman
By Thelma Annan, Popsugar | 09.23.2020

Last week, Dawn Wooten became the latest whistleblower regarding the treatment of migrants inside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Two pigs behind fence
By Coco Feng, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2020

A team led by Chinese researchers say they have succeeding in producing genetically modified pigs with cells that are more...

By Eloise Drane, Newsweek | 09.23.2020

I'm married with five children from a blended family with my current husband, and I've been a gestational surrogate three...

Standardized test
By Georgia Rosenberg, The Stanford Daily | 09.22.2020

As wealthy parents rush to hire teachers for private instruction while those with limited financial barriers choose to take time...

Chinese baby with nurse
By Agence France-Presse, Japan Times | 09.22.2020

Photo by 东旭 王 on Unsplash

BEIJING – Cherry Lin wistfully strokes a one-piece baby outfit, fretting it may be too...

By John Evans, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.22.2020

The ethical debate about what is now called “human gene editing” (HGE) began sixty years ago. At the time, eugenicist...