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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...

Baby
By Sarah Kowalski , Harper's Bazaar | 02.21.2018

"Where did your son get those beautiful, inky-black eyes?" asked my new friend Janet, a mom from my son's preschool...

Two hands holding out a large plate of salad.
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 02.20.2018

DNA testing won’t guide dieters to the weight-loss regimen most likely to work for them, scientists reported on Tuesday. Despite...

Three small babies in their hospital beds with a nurse taking care of one of them.
By Daniel Hurst , The Guardian | 02.20.2018

A wealthy Japanese man at the centre of a “baby factory” scandal in Thailand has won sole parental rights to...

Wooden gavel
By Associated Press, Omaha World-Herald | 02.18.2018

DES MOINES (AP) — The birth mother of an 18-month-old girl who agreed to be paid as a surrogate to...

Basketball player, Stephen Curry, shooting
By Thomas H. Murray, The Daily Beast | 02.18.2018

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s fundamental purpose is preserving “the spirit of sport.” In its official Code, WADA describes that spirit...

Male and Female symbol
By Rebecca Gale, Refinery29 [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.16.2018
It was 2011 and Kathryn Taylor was ready to get pregnant — with a boy. “I wanted a boy first...
Three x-ray brain scans.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 02.15.2018

After 25 years, scientists are starting to make progress against the devastating illness.

For 15 years, Michelle Dardengo watched helplessly...

Picture of DNA
By Marcy Darnovsky, Leah Lowthorp, and Katie Hasson, OpenGlobalRights | 02.15.2018

What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...