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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...

Human embryo under a microscope on blue background
By Emily Mullin, STAT [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.18.2019

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to...

Two 23andMe at-home DNA testing kits
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 04.16.2019

In 2010, Dr. Pamela Munster mailed her saliva to 23andMe, a relatively new DNA testing company, and later opted in...

Dorothy Roberts
By Mark Leviton, The Sun Magazine | 04.15.2019

Law, Africana-studies, and sociology professor Dorothy Roberts describes race as a “political category that has been disguised as a biological...

Photograph of Stephen Quake sitting
By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 04.14.2019

PALO ALTO, Calif. — “Success!” read the subject line of the email. The text, in imperfect English, began: “Good News...

Dollar bill with DNA in the middle
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.12.2019

THE UK BIOBANK is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half...

A colorful image of a fertilized egg.
By Muri Assuncao, Daily News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2019

Oh baby!

A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Editor, ReproTech Truths | 04.10.2019

In the last few years, ASRM has aggressively courted RESOLVE, once a purely grassroots group of women helping women get...

Woman looking and pointing at phone
By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post | 04.10.2019

Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to...