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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...

Chinese newborn baby in hospital
By Christina Zhao, Newsweek | 04.12.2018

A Chinese baby was born by a surrogate mother four years after his parents were killed in a car accident.

Parents...

Newborn baby crying in hospital
By Tracy Samilton, Michigan Radio | 04.12.2018

Saginaw attorney Philip Ellison has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nine parents whose infants' blood was taken and...

A stack of 3 US dollar bills. The top bill is a $1, then $20, and then another $1.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.12.2018

An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question this week about gene therapy.

“Is curing patients a sustainable business...

Chinese flag blowing in the wind
By Javier Hernandez, The New York Times | 04.11.2018

BEIJING — The advertisement for sperm donors was exacting.

No bald men. No hereditary diseases like color blindness. And in...

Burnt orange colored monkey swinging through the trees in central america
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 04.11.2018

Sometime this year, people in the US and Europe will start getting treated for diseases using the gene-editing tool CRISPR...

dragon
By David Ewing Duncan, Neo.life | 04.05.2018

Drew Endy almost can’t talk fast enough to convey everything he has to say. It’s a wonderfully complex message filled...

4 open micro-centrifuge tubes being filled by pipet with DNA.
By Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post | 04.03.2018

Julie Kennerly-Shah and Summit Shah were dating back in 2016 when they decided to buy kits from 23andMe, the popular...

Arrow hitting target
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.02.2018

BIOTECH HAS BEEN betting big on Crispr, the gene-editing technique that promises to snip away some of humanity’s worst diseases. But...