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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...

Book cover for Beyond Bioethics with twisted DNA strand on a yellow background.
By Jordan Liz, Metapsychology Online Reviews [Review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.04.2018

From the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the FDA's approval of BiDil as the first race-specific medication to...

ICSI
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 09.03.2018

Children born through IVF are six times more likely to suffer high blood pressure than naturally conceived children, putting them...

By Silvia Blanco, El País | 08.31.2018

The Spanish Consulate in Kiev is examining the cases of 30 Spanish families currently in Ukraine and who are unable...

A black and white illustration shows Dr. Frankenstein in a lab with a partially assembled skeleton on the table
By Andrew Smith, The Guardian | 08.30.2018

The 18th of March 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added...

Sign at the March for Science reads "Science Makes America Great"
By Rebecca Onion, Slate | 08.29.2018

Advocates of science are in a bad place right now. Some days, in this Second Year of Trump, scientism—a blanket...

illustration of red blood cells
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 08.29.2018

Jeff Johnson is 40 years old, and for all 40 of those years, he has been living with hemophilia. The...

Four eggs in a shallow wicker basket
By Judy Norsigian & Dr. Gary Richwald, Golden Gate Xpress | 08.29.2018

An April 25th article in the Golden Gate Xpress about donating eggs raises important issues for young women considering this...

A partially completed jigsaw puzzle of light blue dna strands on a dark blue background
By Rick Mullin, Chemical and Engineering News | 08.27.2018

In 2015, Jennifer Doudna, codeveloper of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, convened a meeting in Napa, Calif., aimed at setting the...