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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...

Two parents holding a baby
By Rich Gardella and Erika Edwards, NBC News | 03.04.2019

A Facebook post was what alerted Katelynn Gurbach to a massive tank malfunction at University Hospitals Fertility Center near Cleveland...

Gloved hand holding DNA results with dyed purple columns on clear plate
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.01.2019

One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, Mich. Police officers...

Chinese flag
By Dennis Normile, Science | 02.28.2019

In the wake of the shocking news that one of its scientists had produced genetically altered babies, the Chinese government...

Blue human stem cell
By William Wan and Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 02.27.2019

After years of back pain, Timothy Lunceford decided in July to try an injection of umbilical cord blood, an unproven...

Blue strand of double helix DNA on black background
By Natalie Kofler, Nature | 02.26.2019

Millions were shocked to learn of the birth of gene-edited babies last year, but apparently several scientists were already in...

He Jiankui in a lab
By Jane Qiu, STAT | 02.25.2019

BEIJING — Three government institutions in China, including the nation’s science ministry, may have funded the “CRISPR babies” study that...

Double helix strand of DNA with backbone that is orange and bases that are green
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.21.2019

In 1985, the chemist Steven A. Benner sat down with some colleagues and a notebook and sketched out a way...

Blue outline of human with detailed brain, in a web of connecting lines
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.21.2019

The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance...