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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...

By Lily Wakefield, Pink News | 03.23.2020

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic affect on LGBT+ parents who are expecting children via surrogacy, according to an...

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By Christina Caron, New York Times | 03.22.2020

After nearly two years of trying to have a baby, Karen Rzonca, 32, was hoping that this would be the...

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By Donna Dickenson, Katie Hasson & Marcy Darnovsky, Project Syndicate | 03.17.2020

The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...

Home DNA test kit
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Washington Post | 03.15.2020

When Lisa DeAngelico found out she had Stage 4 breast cancer two years ago at age 47, she says one...

By Michael Slezak and Penny Timm, ABC Australia | 03.14.2020

It’s pitch black. The Sun won’t rise for another hour or so.

The ground around Tony Biffin’s dairy farm on...

By Cecile Janssens, eLife | 03.13.2020

Interest in using polygenic scores to make predictions is skyrocketing in many areas of life. For example, researchers are exploring...

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 03.11.2020

This week, we filed an amicus brief in a South Dakota case arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police...

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By University of Bristol, Phys Org | 03.11.2020

Pupils' genetic data do not predict their educational outcomes with sufficient accuracy and shouldn't be used to design a genetically...