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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...

Segregated pawns
By Isabel Wilkerson , The Guardian | 07.28.2020

In the winter of 1959, after leading the Montgomery bus boycott that arose from the arrest of Rosa Parks and...

Doctor examining a black patient
By Rod McCullom, Undark | 07.27.2020

THE POWER OF artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient...

Artist's impression of gene therapy
By Jon Hamilton, NPR | 07.27.2020

This is the story of a fatal genetic disease, a tenacious scientist and a family that never lost hope.

Conner...

By Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Current Affairs | 07.23.2020

Ray Kurzweil, popularizer of the Singularity

Once the dust settles, and we look back on the decade that has just ended...

Slaves at work
By Christine Kenneally, The New York Times | 07.23.2020

Photo by British Library on Unsplash

More than one and a half centuries after the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, a...

By David Kaufman, The New York Times | 07.22.2020

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because ...

Photo of a plane
By Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune | 07.22.2020

Photo by Amarnath Tade on Unsplash

Seven weeks old, with a thoughtful expression and a full head of silky black...

Outline of African American Woman
By Hayley Fowler , The News & Observer | 07.22.2020

For more than four decades North Carolina’s statewide eugenics program forcibly sterilized almost 7,600 people — many of whom were...