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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...

A colorized image of sperm
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 05.12.2020

Genes from the virus that causes COVID-19 have been found in the semen of men who had the disease, according...

A white doctor injecting a black research subject at Tuskegee
By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker | 05.07.2020

Evelynn Hammonds, who chairs Harvard’s department of the history of science, has spent her career studying the intersection of race...

Unemployed workers in line
By Aaron Ross Coleman, Vox | 05.06.2020

Black Americans experience recessions the way front-seat passengers do head-on collisions. During the Great Depression, when national unemployment reached 24...

Logo of the petition drive campaign
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.05.2020

Backers of a $5.5 billion ballot initiative to save the California stem cell research program from financial extinction said today...

An African-American man
By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic | 05.04.2020

Ethel Freeman became famous in death, even though no one knew her name. For months, she was one of the...

Earth, half in darkness
By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams | 05.04.2020

President Donald Trump's brand of "America First" isolationism was on full display Monday as the U.S. declined to participate in...

By Dan Vergano and Kadia Goba, Buzzfeed | 05.04.2020

WASHINGTON — Outside the grocery store in Congress Heights, people are playing dominoes in the parking lot, close together without...

By Natalie Lampert, New York Times | 05.01.2020

Since March, fertility clinics across the country have halted treatments for tens of thousands of people because of Covid-19, forcing...