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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...

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By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

DNA in magnifying glass
By Katherine Bourzac, Nature | 09.25.2025

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as...

a picture of a small village close to Nuuk Greenland
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli, The New York Times | 09.24.2025

For some Greenlanders, sorry isn’t enough.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s...

IVF graphic
By Marianne Lamers, NEMO Kennislink [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.23.2025

Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...

DNA dissolving
By Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian | 09.23.2025

In March 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen was traveling through Chicago’s Midway airport when they were stopped by US border...

Donald Trump
By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and...

gene therapy graphic
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.22.2025

On May 26, Tracy Atteberry checked in to the hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The...

gene editing graphic
By Charmayne Allison, ABC News | 09.21.2025

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists.

He had...