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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 Chinese man in a blue shirt (Dr. He Jiankui)
By Nature Editorial Board, Nature | 11.20.2019

A year ago this week, geneticist He Jiankui made the shocking announcement of the birth of twin girls in China...

mother and child with a backpack leaving house to go to school
By Daniela Wei, K Oanh Ha, and Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.19.2019

Months after his daughter’s birth in 2017, Chris Jung dropped off a test-tube of her saliva to his company’s genetic...

a little person shakes hands with a politician
By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.18.2019

Scientists have come up with a drug, injected once a day, that appears to make children’s bones grow. To many...

mosquito on a green leaf
By Hidde Boersma and Joost Bastmeijer, The Guardian | 11.18.2019

At 6:30 am five-year-old Osman Balama and his mother reach the state hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest city in Burkina...

close up of a white police officer's hands cuffing a white suspect's wrists
By Kristin Houser, Futurism | 11.11.2019

With just a single warrant, a Florida detective obtained access to the DNA profiles of more than a million people...

gloved hand drops liquid into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Jonathan R. Latham, Salon | 11.10.2019

The opening scene of "Unnatural Selection," a four-part docuseries released recently from Netflix, depicts scientist Jennifer Doudna showing off a...

Poster for ANYA
By Victoria Turner, Synapse [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.08.2019

In 2018, the story broke of a Chinese researcher who had made real-life use of CRISPR to edit two human...

photo of a white man with grey hair and mustache, crossing his arms and smiling
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.08.2019

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has reaffirmed his support for a moratorium on...