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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...

Against a black background, golden numbers and tick marks suggesting a clock, spiral into the center.
By Patricia Stapleton, The Conversation | 08.21.2017

The first “test-tube baby” made headlines around the world in 1978, setting off intense debate on the ethics of researching...

Microscopic image of sperm is injected directly into an egg
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.18.2017

From the thirteenth floor of a glass tower at the Oregon Health & Science University, you get a panoramic view...

A cotton swab rests on a container.
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 08.16.2017

It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV...

Bird's eye view of an adult with slender features working, using a laptop, and notebook and surrounded by coffee, plant and candle on a wooden desk.
By Alison DeNisco, Tech Republic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.15.2017

Women leave jobs at mid-career in tech at higher rates than those in other fields. It's possible that benefits like

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Spotlighted against a black shadowy background is a blue DNA model projected by an upside down shaped pyramid hologram
By Brendan P. Foht, Foreign Affairs [cites CGS] | 08.14.2017

What U.S. Government Policy Should Be

News that U.S. scientists led by Oregon Health and Sciences University biologist Shoukrat Mitalipov...

two people in lab coats edit a strand of DNA
By Rebecca Cokley, The Washington Post | 08.10.2017

It’s ironic that news of a breakthrough in human gene editing was released on July 26. That was the...

DNA gel being held on a clear glass tray by a gloved technician.
By Pema Levy, Mother Jones | 08.10.2017

Forensic science is an embattled field. As DNA testing has overturned hundreds of convictions based on flawed forensic evidence, scientists and...

Close-up of a double helix structure positioned horizontally.
By Joel Michael Reynolds, Time | 08.09.2017

On August 2nd, scientists achieved a milestone on the path to human genetic engineering. For the first time in the...