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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...

Blue double helix DNA on black background
By Laura Hercher, The New York Times | 09.15.2018

In many ways, Matt Fender, a 32-year-old resident of New York City, is the prototypical 23andMe customer: tech-savvy, educated, a...

Cover of Beyond Bioethics: Helical DNA on yellow background
By Travis Chi Wing Lau , Somatosphere [review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.13.2018

“The science will let loose its cascading interactions with utter impassivity; yet how we inhabit that knowledge will be a...

Pregnant woman in pink dress holding stomach
By Madeline Roache, Al Jazeera News | 09.13.2018

Kiev, Ukraine - Throughout Ukraine, advertisements about becoming a surrogate mother are plastered on buses and throughout the metro...

Large golden retriever dog lying on grass
By Jessica Hekman, Undark | 09.13.2018

The promise of a sequenced genome is like a wrapped present, containing exactly what you always wanted but never knew...

Two upright pill bottles, one pill lying down, and several loose pills, all on top of a black table
By Jennifer Tsai, Scientific American | 09.12.2018

They tell us race is an invention.

That there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is...

Three stages of human evolution, looking more like a modern man from left to right. Pencil drawings on a tan background
By Michael Schulson, Undark | 09.12.2018

LAST SPRING, Paul Strode gave an unusual survey to his advanced biology students at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado...

Technician working with test tubes
By Larry Mantle, KPCC AirTalk [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.12.2018

In 2004, Voters approved Proposition 71 by nearly 60 percent establishing a $3 billion bond to fund the science of...

A man and a woman holding the hands of a baby, laying on a white background.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 09.12.2018

BOSTON — Kianni Arroyo clasps 8-year-old Sophia’s hands tightly as they spin around, giggling like mad. It’s late afternoon, and there...