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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...

An embryo being fertilized
By Katie Hasson, The Hill | 06.10.2019

Late last year, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first genetically modified babies. He deployed a...

Public debate
By Marcy Darnovsky, ISSUES in Science and Technology | 06.05.2019

As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it...

U.S. Supreme Court
By Kelly Servick, Science | 06.04.2019

A congressional proposal that would overturn a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that barred the patenting of human genes and...

Ban On Genetically Modified Babies
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.04.2019

A congressional committee voted Tuesday to continue a federal ban on creating genetically modified babies in the United States.

The...

Baby having its heartbeat checked by a doctor
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio | 06.03.2019

There are new concerns about the world's first genetically modified babies.

It appears that the genetic variation a Chinese scientist...

Woman sitting with her back to the camera
By Rachel Adams, The Conversation | 05.29.2019

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these...

Close-up image of the U.S. Congress
By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 05.29.2019

Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...

He Jiankui speaks during the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28, 2018.
By Sharon Begley, STAT News | 05.28.2019

The condemnation of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genome-edited babies last year was far from universal: A...