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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...

Grayscale photo of two women who are sitting next to each other, looking at each other's smartphones.
By Elissa Strauss, Glamour Magazine [cites CGS' Fellow Gina Maranto] | 12.28.2017

New evidence shows that the tests many companies use to determine a woman's chances of having a baby are based...

A patient looks through an eye doctor's instrument, which covers their face almost completely.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.27.2017

Some blind people are questioning how the first gene therapy to treat inherited blindness has been valued.

Among blind people...

A person in a lab coat and gloved hands uses tongs to life up a bottle that has been stored in cryopreservation
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.21.2017

Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than...

An eight-cell embryo
By Henry Zwartz, ABC News | 12.20.2017

A central Tasmanian sperm and egg donor register is being recommended after a parliamentary committee heard of the "distress and...

Close up of a brown mouse against a solid white background
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 12.20.2017

Genetic engineering offers the promise of treating genetic disorders by correcting disease-causing DNA, but when the defective genes are located...

Close up of a mouse
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.20.2017

Scientists have now edited genes inside mice to prevent a form of inherited deafness.

While cautioning that much more research...

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stands behind a podium
By Laurie McGinley, Washington Post | 12.19.2017

In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a pioneering gene therapy for a rare form...

Wall display featuring large letters of ATCG in various colors. Behind, they are illuminated by a light.
By Nikhil Reddy, Huffington Post | 12.18.2017

Imagine you’re having a child in the near future, and with the vast trove of gene-editing technologies that have surfaced...