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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...

Sleeping Baby
By Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker | 07.20.2020

Ben and Abbie Rosenberg’s relationship got its start the old-fashioned way. Not their initial meeting—that happened on Jdate, a Jewish...

Holding a phone
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.20.2020

Image by IntelFreePress via Flickr

When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free softwareto help alert people...

Artist's impression of data
By Sara Morrison , Vox | 07.16.2020

In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax...

Baby's hand in an adult's
By Peter McGuire, TheJournal.ie | 07.14.2020

SHORTLY AFTER THE marriage equality referendum passed in 2015, Ranae von Meding became pregnant with her first child.

“We used...

Frankie Cordoba in a wheelchair
By Chelsey Cox , USA Today | 07.14.2020

July marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Pride Month. But that's not why people...

A remote control
By Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020

Ready for a thought experiment?

Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. Crime is...

Selection in a lab
By Michael Le Page, NewScientist | 07.12.2020

The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help...

Genetic Information
By Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020

Canada's highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance...