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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...

New born being held in doctor's hands.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.11.2018

It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.

In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell...

Red warning sign.
By Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight | 12.10.2018

How do you stop a mad scientist?

We’ve been doing it in fiction for centuries. Doctor Faustus was carried off...

An embryo.
By Landon J. Getz, Graham Dellaire, Francoise Baylis, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 12.10.2018

In response to news of the world’s first babies born in China from gene-edited embryos, Sam Sternberg, a CRISPR/Cas9 researcher...

Man running outside.
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.10.2018

If you want to win a race or stick to a difficult diet, coaches of all kinds will tell you...

A row of test tubes in a plastic holder
By Robert Salonga, The Mercury News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.10.2018

SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing the government of violating constitutional privacy rights, a trio of civil liberties groups is suing the...

A medic holding a test tube with blood in it.
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.09.2018

The California stem cell agency, state regulators and lawmakers are taking aim at the more than 100 dubious, unregulated "stem...

A figure sitting down holding a sign that says "Ethics".
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2018

Just over a year ago, CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley talked with me about the prospects that the...

London University exterior.
By Anna Fazackerley, The Guardian | 12.06.2018

University College London has launched an inquiry into its historical links with eugenics, following pressure from students and staff.

It...