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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...

DNA strand
By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 03.05.2018

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has...

Lesbian couple holding hands and walking on the street
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 03.04.2018

“Three parent babies!!!!” was a shock-horror headline across the world when the UK was debating mitochondrial replacement therapy a couple...

Indian Flag
By Sujatha Byravan , The Hindu | 03.03.2018

The Delhi High Court recently ruled against discrimination in health insurance by United India Insurance Company involving a person with...

Diverse group of children standing in grass
By Gavin Evans, The Guardian | 03.02.2018

One of the strangest ironies of our time is that a body of thoroughly debunked “science” is being revived by...

Three palm trees by the ocean in Southern California
By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.01.2018

Back in 2004, when California's stem cell agency was little more than an idea in the minds of researchers, its...

Large cactus focused into the middle of the screen with a field of cacti in the back
By Ellen Trachman , Above The Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...

Burj Al Arab at sunset in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 02.28.2018

In a massively ambitious project aimed at improving the health of its 3 million residents, the city of Dubai plans...

Image of Big Ben and surroundings in London, England
By BBC, BBC | 02.28.2018

Guidance on how to start a family using a surrogate has been published for England and Wales for the first...