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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...

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By Michael Rossi, The Los Angeles Review of Books | 01.11.2026

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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By Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 01.09.2026

Menlo Ventures has made a $16 million bet that the “baby KJ” custom CRISPR therapy success story is...

DNA in test tubes
By Danny Finley, Bill of Health | 01.08.2026

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a unique funding structure among federal scientific and health agencies. The

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.08.2026

Scientists claim to have “rejuvenated” human eggs for the first time in an advance that they predict could revolutionise IVF...

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By David Cox, Wired | 01.05.2026

As he addressed an audience of virologists from China, Australia, and Singapore at October’s Pandemic Research Alliance Symposium, Wei Zhao...

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By Staff, ScienceDaily | 01.05.2026

Scientists at UNSW Sydney have developed a new form of CRISPR technology that could make gene therapy safer while also

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By Katherine Long, The Wall Street Journal | 12.27.2025

Nia Trent-Wilson owes $182,889.63 in medical bills for a baby that wasn’t hers.

In late 2021, she agreed to act...

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By Sam Schechner, Daria Matviichuk, and Thomas Grove, The Wall Street Journal | 12.22.2025

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