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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 male doctor examines a pregnant woman's exposed stomach as she lays does on a hospital bed.
By Alana Cattapan and Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 09.27.2017

Health Canada recently sought public input into new regulations for the use of assisted human reproduction. The consultation process covered...

Art exhibition featuring a plastic human model, and a colorful DNA model in the background
By Corin Faife, How We Get To Next [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.26.2017

Editing the human genome has huge potential for improving health — for those who can afford it

Debojyoti Chakraborty smiles at me from...

Kruskal–Szekeres diagram, in which there are four different colored quadrants in a grid. Two opposite quadrants are shaped as hyperbolas.
By Cathy O'neil, Boston Review | 09.25.2017

Have you heard? Someday we will live in a perfect society ruled by an omnipotent artificial intelligence, provably and utterly...

A pipette is inserted into one test tube, among several, standing upright in a test tube rack.
By Ann Givens and Robert Lewis, The Trace | 09.25.2017

The city is ramping up its efforts to collect genetic material. But the absence of oversight alarms forensic and legal...

Forensic equipment, including crime scene tape, gloves, and evidence bag.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 09.25.2017

If you’ve ever watched a prime-time crime drama like CSI, you know that DNA evidence is often the linchpin that...

Four small pigs sleep side by side on top of a ground floor covered with hay.
By Kelly Servick, Science | 09.22.2017

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—Add your name to a waitlist for a kidney transplant in the United States today, and you’ll join...

Marcy Darnovsky speaks among  panel at CRISPRcon
By Michael Fernandez, George Washington University Food Institute [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

On August 16-17, at the University of California at Berkeley, more than 300 people gathered to explore science, society and...

Illustration of an 8-cell stage embryo
By Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian.com [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

A genetic tool allows researchers to disable a gene key to human development in a closely regulated experiment

For the...