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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...

book cover for "Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
By Alexandra Minna Stern, Salon | 07.14.2019

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated...

Google Street View Image of the CHA Fertility Center building
By Ashley Collman, Business Insider | 07.12.2019

A Los Angeles fertility clinic has been hit with two lawsuits from clients who said their embryos were mixed up...

demonstrators at a white supremacist rally
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 07.12.2019

On the hate site Stormfront, one of the largest online discussion forums dedicated to “white pride,” sharing DNA results with fellow members has become a...

Human Fetus at Nine Weeks
By Oscar Schwartz, OneZero | 07.09.2019

For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable...

By Staff Writer, CBS Los Angeles [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.09.2019

An unidentified New York couple is suing a Los Angeles fertility clinic after they claim the woman gave birth to...

Photo of Françoise Balis
By Gemma Buck, National Post | 07.08.2019

Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance...

Blue stylized images of DNA
By Isabelle Altman, The Dispatch [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.06.2019

A strand of DNA analyzed in a rape kit from 1990 was the key piece of evidence in Starkville Police...

A nurse checking a baby's hearing
By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 07.04.2019

Five Russian couples who are deaf want to try the CRISPR gene-editing technique so they can have a biological child...