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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...

Scientist pipetting into plate
By Mary Warnock, The Guardian | 03.11.2018

The Royal Society has recently published the results of an extensive survey of the attitudes of the general public to...

Women operating machinery at a fertility clinic
By Amy Goldstein , Washington Post | 03.11.2018

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic experienced a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank holding thousands of frozen eggs...

Pink background one side and blue background on the other with a DNA strand in the middle
By Joyce Bichler, Breast Cancer Action | 03.07.2018

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved an at-home genetic testing kit without a doctor’s...

Bright yellow fluorescent fish in water
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.07.2018

Britons are broadly in favour of rewriting the genetic code of human embryos to prevent children from inheriting devastating diseases...

A grainy, grayscale image showing the process of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). A slender needle tip touching the edge of an egg, held by pipette.
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 03.06.2018

Women are unfairly paying the price for men's falling fertility,  scientists have warned.

Mens sperm counts have reduced by...

7 bright yellow images of "x-shaped" chromosomes
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.06.2018

On Tuesday, 23andMe announced it will start telling customers of its mail-in DNA-testing kit about three mutations in the breast-cancer...

Dog
By Jessica Pierce, New York Times | 03.06.2018

Why, people want to know, did Barbra Streisand decide to clone Samantha, her coton de tulear? What would compel someone...

Hand throwing two red dice into the air
By Joel Michael Reynolds, Aeon Ideas | 03.05.2018

When I was three years old, I was told that my brother Jason had a 95 per cent chance of...