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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...

Headshot of Jeffrey Epstein
By Luke Darby, The Guardian | 08.19.2019

According to his indictment, over the course of many years Jeffrey Epstein “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls...

Drawing of DaVinci's "Man" (Vitruvie Luc Viatour)
By Stuart Newman, CounterPunch | 08.16.2019

Fabricating part-human-part-nonhuman animals, with features of both, seemed like something out of Greek mythology until the late 20th century...

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By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 08.16.2019

Seizing on the surging popularity of at-home DNA testing kits, top academic medical institutions are opening clinics that promise to...

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By Robert Klitzman, CNN | 08.16.2019

Many surprises come with having a baby, including learning your child's sex and discovering all the traits they inherited as...

By Ana B. Ibarra, California Healthline [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.15.2019

Californians voted in 2004 to shell out billions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund cutting-edge stem cell treatments.

Proposition...

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By Pete Shanks, The Progressive | 08.14.2019

In mid-July, a bipartisan trio of U.S. Senators—Democrats Dianne Feinstein of California and Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Republican...

He Jiankui speaking at the the international genome editing summit in Hong Kong
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.12.2019

The second-most shocking thing He Jiankui told the international genome editing summit in Hong Kong last November — right after...

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By Jennifer M. Gumer, The Hastings Center | 08.09.2019

A Russian scientist recently announced his intention to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to edit and implant human embryos—a revelation...