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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...

A desk with the following items: wooden gavel, and two Federal Reporters books tacked on each other.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 01.09.2018

During three emotional days of divorce talks, Drake and Mandy Rooks managed to agree on how to divide up almost...

A large chart displaying ATCG in multiple colors.
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 01.08.2018

Researchers hoping to use a gene-editing technique to treat diseases may have to seek alternative enzymes.

The body’s own immune...

A spotlight illuminates a puzzle of a double helix that is being assembled, but with missing pieces that are staggered around its border.
By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 01.08.2018

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Monday announced a collaboration with rival drugmakers that will speed its effort to collect genetic information...

A building, with a sign in front reading "US Department of Health and Human Services Federal Regulation Administration."
By Michael Mezher, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society | 01.04.2018

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday warned stem cell product supplier American CryoStem Corporation for marketing an...

The back of a child walking with an adult who is holding their hand. Surrounding the child are bubbles in the wind.
By Elizabeth Cook, KPIX 5 [features CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.04.2018

A revolutionary way for human beings to reproduce appears inevitable, and the future may be closer than any of us...

Newborn babies are asleep in separate hospital crates, with blankets, that are lined up.
By Hillary Savoie, Romper | 01.04.2018

When I saw the email asking me to write about the recent Ohio law that makes performing an abortion after...

Microscopic image of an embryo from IVF
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 01.04.2018

Women transitioning to men must be offered egg storage on the NHS, because they have the right to become parents...

A pregnant woman lays with her stomach exposed on a hospital bed, and looks over to her side viewing a sonogram machine which displays a fetus.
By Sarah White, Reuters | 01.03.2018

A majority of French people would favor allowing surrogate motherhood, though primarily only for medical reasons, a poll showed on...