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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...

By Anna Maria Romero, The Independent | 03.21.2019

Mumbai—A Malaysian national has been detained at the Mumbai International Airport after it was discovered that he was carrying live...

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By Stephen Buranyi, The New York Review of Books | 03.21.2019

When the journal Science chose the radical gene-editing technology CRISPR as its 2015 breakthrough of the year, the editorial team...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.19.2019

There’s an “urgent need” to create a transparent global registry that would list all experiments related to human genome editing...

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By Raquel Cool, We Are Egg Donors | 03.18.2019

We Are Egg Donors has been a long-time partner with Dr. Diane Tober, a medical anthropologist at UCSF who is...

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By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2019

The first Facebook message arrived when Heather Woock was packing for vacation, in August 2017. It was from a stranger claiming to...

Photo of He Jiankui in a blue collard shirt who experimented to make CRISPR'd twins who were delivered last November.
By Donna Dickenson, Marcy Darnovsky, Nature Biotechnology | 03.15.2019

To the Editor — The claim last November by He Jiankui to have engineered the first CRISPR-edited babies has ignited...

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By Landon J. Getz and Graham Dellaire, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

In a newly published article in Nature, a group of prominent scientists and ethicists have called for a moratorium...

By Eleanor Feingold, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the...