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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...

Microscopic image of skin cells
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 11.08.2017

For a soccer-playing, holiday-loving boy on the brink of death from a rare inherited skin disease, doctors have accomplished a...

Female laboratory technician sitting at computer that displays a DNA microarray
By Bonnie Rochman, KQED | 11.06.2017

Excerpts from “The Other Scarlet ‘A’: Abortion’s Relationship to Genetic Testing” from THE GENE MACHINE by Bonnie Rochman.

When the...

Grayscale photo of a person's refection from a puddle of water, as they walk .
By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 11.06.2017

They wanted a baby, she wanted to carry it for them—for a fee. It’s a common transaction but illegal in...

Close up of a baby's foot, when lying down, with a hospital tag attached to their ankle.
By Jim Kozubek, Undark | 11.03.2017

A cutting-edge study foreshadows what genetic science might bestow to human health, but the public is rightfully wary.

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A white toddler with long black hair and dressed in a pick dress, is held by an adult mother. The toddler sits on a table, with their hands extended reaching for another adult's masculine hand in front of the toddler.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 11.01.2017

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Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It’s a disease that runs in...

Transparent glass frames, with the repeating letters ATCG in bold black font.
By Osagie K. Obasogie , Scientific American | 11.01.2017

What would it mean to embrace new gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 at the very moment white supremacy is, once again, on...

Landscape photo of The Hollywood sign
By Zoe Williams, The Guardian | 10.30.2017

In Europe, 77% of IVF treatments fail – and doctors have suggested that famous people should be more honest about...

Two surgeons in uniform perform surgery on a patient, with tools in their hands and looking down at the patient.
By Elaine Schattner, Forbes | 10.29.2017

A horrifying story broke last week about a 36-year-old Oregon woman who had elective surgery to remove her uterus and...