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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 Orphan Black promotional poster, featuring two side by side portraits of a woman, with the headline "I am not your property" and "I am not your weapon."
By Elizabeth Preston, Neo.Life | 10.05.2017

A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.

You don’t usually see TV shows...

Seven candles are lit in a darkened room.
By Vogue, Vogue | 10.04.2017

Chrissy Teigen is nothing if not candid—a quality that the model turned chef and television host is both adored and...

Four rolled up dollar bills are planted in an upright position in soil. A gardner's tool is blurred in the background
By Deirdre Fernandes, Boston Globe | 10.04.2017

At MIT and Brandeis University this week, newly minted Nobel Prize winners stressed the key role that federal funding played...

Several baby blocks are scattered on a hardwood floor, with a baby's feet in the background.
By Sarah Michael Hollenbeck, Shondaland | 10.03.2017

This essay has been condensed. It can (and should) be read in its entirety in "Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance...

A bird's eye view of a spiraling staircase cascading downward.
By Malihe Razazan, KALW's Your Call [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.03.2017

CRISPR, the powerful gene editing technique that enables the precise modification of genes, is revolutionizing medicine and biotechnology. It can...

Microscopic image of in vitro fertilization procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg
By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 10.01.2017

For several years, scientists have experimented on human embryos with a powerful genome editing tool called CRISPR to see if...

Block letters ATCG are positioned in a line, wtih one of the A letters in front, appearing to be erased.
By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.28.2017

Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told...