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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...

DNA genotyping and sequencing
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 09.03.2020

FOR DECADES, SCIENTISTS have been tinkering with genes—cutting and pasting bits of DNA into organisms like plants, bacteria, and mice...

Policeman at traffic stop
By Kathleen Mcgrory and Neil Bedi, Tampa Bay Times | 09.03.2020

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that...

He Jiankui
By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS's Katie Hasson] | 09.03.2020

In 2018, Jiankui He (pictured) announced that he had edited genes in embryos to create two baby girls.

Gene editing...

DNA sequencing lab
By Ian Sample, The Guardian [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.03.2020

Powerful genome editing procedures that could prevent parents from passing on heritable diseases to their children are far from ready...

Salmon filet
By GM Watch Staff, GM Watch | 09.02.2020

"People across the country have made it clear that they don’t want to eat genetically engineered salmon, and food retailers...

Coronavirus
By Shibani Mahtani and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, Washington Post | 09.01.2020

HONG KONG — Borrowing from mainland China's pandemic playbook, Hong Kong officials began a drive Tuesday to mass-test residents...

Covid testing swabs
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 09.01.2020

In the past few weeks, public-health experts were rightfully outraged at moves by the US Centers for Disease Control and...

Man signing documents
By George Thomas, The Government Center Gazette [cites CGS] | 09.01.2020

SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced today that his measure, Senate Bill 980 (SB 980)  passed the California...