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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...

stem cells
By Editors, Nature | 08.18.2026

Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a...

immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing medical inspection
By Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times | 08.13.2026

Immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing a medical inspection | Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

In 1924...

a beagle with a red collar
By Adithi Ramakrishnan, AP News | 08.05.2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing — until he and other scientists used a ...

sperm
By Sophie Ryall , BioNews | 08.03.2026

A fertility doctor is being sued for using his own sperm during artificial insemination procedures without the patient's knowledge or...

DNA in a magnifying glass
By Dhruv Mehrotra , Wired | 08.03.2026

On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation...

a gavel with a DNA strand
By Katherine Long, The Wall Street Journal | 07.31.2026

Kyla Simpson pulled up to the St. Johns County, Fla., sheriff’s office in a black SUV in June with two...

an image of a cell on a pink background
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.30.2026

As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it...

IVF graphics with dollar sign
By Edward Chen, Nature | 07.28.2026

A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...