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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 graphic of the earth consumed by fire
By Kevin Roose, The New York Times | 09.12.2025

The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percent chance that A.I. was going to...

visualization of AI computer servers
By Alondra Nelson, Science | 09.11.2025

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the...

DNA storage in black and white
By Natalie Ram, Anya E. R. Prince, Jessica L. Roberts, Dov Fox, and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Science | 09.11.2025

After declaring bankruptcy in March 2025, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company 23andMe sold the data of more than 15 million...

the White House
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping...

gene therapy and dollar sign graphic
By Dennis Sponer, BioSpace | 09.03.2025

Imagine telling a child with sickle cell disease that a cure exists—but it’s too expensive for their insurer to cover...

DNA in magnifying glass
By Grace Tobin and Kirsten Robb, ABC News Australia | 09.01.2025

A secret audit of a major fertility clinic revealed that almost all of its donor sperm being provided to patients...

ivf
By Grace Tobin and Kirsten Robb, ABC News Australia | 08.31.2025

A biracial baby was born to a white couple in Brisbane in an IVF mix-up that Australia's biggest fertility company...

Greenland
By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian | 08.27.2025

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has apologised for the first time for the forced contraception scandal in which thousands of...