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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...

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By John Horgan , Scientific American | 08.05.2019

A while back my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, created a new major called science and technology studies, or STS...

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By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.05.2019

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and phone calls with accused sex...

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By Anna Silman, The Cut | 08.01.2019

Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about alleged sex trafficker and cartoon villain Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 08.01.2019

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

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By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times | 07.31.2019

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.30.2019

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.29.2019

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...

By Walter Isaacson, Air Mail | 07.27.2019

QUEBEC CITY

Biology is the new tech. I’m at a conference in Quebec City on CRISPR, the molecular tool designed...