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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...

FDA building in Silver Spring, Maryland
By Paige Winfield Cunningham , Washington Post | 03.27.2018

The Food and Drug Administration’s move to allow 23andMe to screen people for breast cancer risks may unleash a flood...

The letters D-N-A spelled out in red and blue double helices.
By Timothy Caulfield, Policy Options | 03.23.2018

After what feels like a decade of hype and underwhelming sales, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing seems to be taking off...

A small, pink ceramic piggy bank is nestled in the middle of a woven basket full of golden eggs.
By Lindsey J. Smith, San Francisco Magazine [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.23.2018

After spending her 20s as an aid worker in Africa and India, Helena moved to the Bay Area in 2012...

Black and white postcard ca. 1910 showing the Sonoma State Home (Hospital).
By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, The Conversation | 03.22.2018

In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the...

Picture of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
By Samantha Pearson, The Wall Street Journal | 03.22.2018

SÃO PAULO—With “jewel-tone eyes,” blond hair and a “smattering of light freckles,” Othello looks nothing like most Brazilians, the majority...

Two babies wearing hats
By Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Jounral | 03.21.2018

It was her last chance.

MaryJo Dunn had been trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization for 20 months.

At...

Silhouettes of 4 people sitting in chairs. Word bubbles suggest that they are exchanging ideas.
By Simon Burall, Nature | 03.21.2018

Over the past three years, thousands of articles have been published about editing genes and genomes. Apart from a public...

A line drawing of a globe with a face. One eye is looking out a spyglass.
By Sheila Jasanoff and J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Nature | 03.21.2018

In August 2017, scientists reported that they had used the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to correct a mutation in viable human...