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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...

Photo of a human embryo
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.26.2019

A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and...

State of Georgia depicted in rainbow colors
By The Associated Press, NBC News | 07.24.2019

A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to...

By Jonathan Lambert, Nature | 07.24.2019

Advocates for stem-cell research in California are pushing ahead with a plan to save the struggling state-funded California Institute for...

A doctor holding a DNA test swab
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 07.21.2019

Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly...

Red and blue DNA
By Samara Rosenfeld, Inside Digital Health [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.19.2019

It’s no secret that gene editing has sparked ethical concerns. In March, scientists and ethicists from seven countries issued ...

eggs under a microscope
By Ruthie Ackerman, The New York Times | 07.19.2019

I was beginning to realize I wanted to have a baby. My husband, I knew, never would.

From the time...

By Dan Cloer, Vision [cites CGS' Richard Hayes] | 07.16.2019

Fifteen thousand babies are born every hour, every day, around the world. About 3 percent, or 450 individuals, are twins...

US Congress building
By Andrew Joseph, STAT+ | 07.15.2019

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China...