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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...

15 colored pencils stand upright spanning the color spectrum from yellow to green to blue to indigo to red to orange to brown to gray.
By Emily Mullin, Neo.Life/Medium | 11.29.2018

Jiankui He stunned the world this week when a report revealed he had edited genes in human embryos aiming to...

A train sits stopped in a Beijing train station.
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 11.29.2018

BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it had suspended the work of a scientist who claims to have created...

Scientist in dark room bent over looking at a petri dish
By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff and Krishanu Saha, The Washington Post | 11.29.2018

This is the experiment that was not supposed to happen.

A Chinese scientist claimed this week that he had produced...

Blue double helix DNA on black background
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

A Chinese scientist's claims that he created the world's first gene-edited babies is a "deeply disturbing" and "irresponsible" violation of...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Dennis Normile, Science [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

HONG KONG, CHINA—An international conference on human gene editing dominated by news of the birth of the world's first...

A close up shot of a lab microscope with one of three focal heads pointed at a piece of glass and sample below.
By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.28.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher who claims to have helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies says...

A wideshot of the inside of a surgery staging area, with the various clinical stations set up, but no persons visible.
By Anna Louie Sussman, The Guardian | 11.28.2018

In 2016, after seven years trying to conceive, New York state assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte was pregnant with twins...

Newborn baby lying on white towel
By Michael Krasny, KQED [features CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.28.2018

A scientist in China announced this week that he had created the world's first genetically-edited human babies. In an announcement...