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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...

An undifferentiated cell being differentiated into different cells. A switch is used to symbolize the changes made that allow the cell to differentiate differently.
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.14.2018

California is counting its first royalties from a 13-year-old effort to develop stem cell cures and has declared that it...

Buildings in Kiev, Ukraine
By Kevin Ponniah, BBC | 02.13.2018

Ukraine, one of Europe's poorest nations, is fast becoming the place to go for people desperate to find a surrogate...

Close-up view of microscope lens
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 02.12.2018

BOSTON—Out on an old Navy dry dock, a biotech company called Ginkgo Bioworks is growing genetically modified organisms by the...

A calculator and eye glasses rest on piles of paper
By Paul Kleutghen, David Mitchell, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Mehdi Najafzadeh, and Ameet Sarpatwari, HealthAffairs | 02.08.2018

In a system in which life-saving drugs are developed with direct and indirect taxpayer support and afforded market protection through ...

Pencil above DNA strand (pencil represents gene editing)
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.07.2018

Jim Wilson has been one of gene therapy's pioneers. Now he's raising concerns about the safety of a technology he...

A symbol for cryptocurrrency Bitcoin is shown as a coin falling against a solid black background.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 02.07.2018

People will be able to earn cryptocurrency in exchange for letting pharma companies use their data.

Cryptocurrency in exchange for...

Toddler not looking at camera
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Smithsonian | 02.05.2018

Genomics is cheaper and more available then ever, but its usefulness for parents has yet to be proven

Before Cheryl...

Light blue sterile operating room
By The Japan Times, The Japan Times Editorial | 02.03.2018

A damages lawsuit filed by a woman forcibly sterilized under the now-defunct Eugenic Protection Law should prompt the government to...