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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 empty laboratory with tools such as microscopes
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.20.2017

For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest...

Close-up of a human stem cell surrounded by chemicals
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 09.19.2017

Stem cells can be coaxed to self-assemble into structures resembling human embryos.

Yue Shao had never seen anything quite like...

Excited Baltimore Ravens fans are standing behind a fence hoping to get their gear signed.
By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 09.18.2017

At the Ravens vs. Browns game on Sunday, a biotech startup had planned to hand out tens of thousands of

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A multicolored representation of DNA profile.
By Michael White, Pacific Standard Magazine | 09.13.2017

Four crucial facts about race, sex, and biology that contradict this messy argument.

In America, we've had a long history...

In the palm of a hand,  someone holds out a crumpled hundred dollar bill.
By Paul Bentley, Sara Smyth, Katherine Faulkner , Daily Mail Investigations Unit | 09.12.2017

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The fertility watchdog last night launched a major crackdown on clinics exposed by the Daily Mail for...

The French flag blows in the wind, against a blue sky with clouds.
By Brian Love, Reuters | 09.12.2017

The right of lesbian couples and single women to have access to assisted reproduction was “a matter of social justice”...

The Legal Aid Society's logo. Several shapes, such as triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles, in various colors form a mosaic.
By Graham Rayman, New York Daily News | 09.12.2017

The Legal Aid Society launched a broadside Monday at the state’s familial DNA testing proposal, saying the move is an...

Anne Wojcicki appears engaged as a speaker on a panel.
By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 09.12.2017

The round, led by Sequoia Capital, will help 23andMe reach more new customers and double down on its efforts to

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