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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...

Person on scale
By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 08.27.2020

Here's a sci-fi fantasy spurred by some very real — but early — new research published this week:

Imagine the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.25.2020

President Trump’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic has been rooted from the start in grand goals and grander ambitions, all...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 08.25.2020

It's possible that you've never been sent one of these ads. I haven't. But if you're a young woman, aged...

People protesting
By Sam Farmer, Changing America | 08.21.2020

How might greater social justice for those who have unjustly been marginalized best be achieved? Perhaps cross-movement solidarity is the...

A mosquito family tree
By Brigitte Nerlich, Making Science Public | 08.21.2020

Some days ago, I came across an interesting virtual conference (HT @Sarah_A_Hartley) about gene editing which includes a session on...

By GEN, GEN | 08.20.2020

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School, in partnership with...

A doctor with a pipette in hand
By Elizabeth Cooney, STAT | 08.20.2020

The Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of a gene therapy for hemophilia A on Wednesday surprised many hematology researchers and...

3D landscape of a genome
By Indrani Mukherjee, Broad Institute | 08.20.2020

Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial...