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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 Claire Tomkins, Forbes | 03.09.2020

In the U.S., birthrates have dipped to an all-time low of 1.73 births per mother.

More than anything, this is...

By Riley Black, Discover | 03.09.2020

The last mammoths were in trouble. Isolated on Wrangel Island, a spit of land off the coast of Siberia, the...

close-up photo of a researcher wearing a mask
By Angela Saini, Nature | 03.09.2020

One of the world’s leading universities — University College London (UCL) — has completed an inquiry into its support for...

women in hospital bed
By Francis S Collins, Fortune | 03.08.2020

The year was 1984. I was finishing my medical genetics training at Yale, working on the molecular genetics of disorders...

CRISPR in a vial
By The Associated Press, The New York Times | 03.04.2020

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier...

Vial of DNA labeled DNA Test
By Libby Copeland, TIME | 03.02.2020

“Have you found an article of clothing with a suspicious stain?” asks the website of one Florida-based company called All...

a strand of DNA
By Michael Eisenstein, Nature | 02.24.2020

Leslie Mitchell had no intention of doing a postdoc. After completing her PhD at the University of Ottawa, she had...

sperm swimming to an egg
By Karen Weingarten, Nursing Clio | 02.24.2020

In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills gynecologist who ran a sperm...