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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 unused 23andMe kit, displayed with box open and containing specimen bag, cotton swab, and vile container.
By Jessica Cussins, The Pharmaceutical Journal | 06.19.2017

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, for the first time, granted permission to a company to provide limited...

Photo of Charpentier presenting, with a picture of microscopic cells in the background.
By Sarah Buhr, Tech Crunch | 06.19.2017

Continuing the patent dispute internationally, China has now given the Charpentier/Doudna side a patent to edit genes in the country.

CRISPR...

Portrait photo of a Cambodian woman smiling, while sitting on the ground.
By South China Morning Post | 06.18.2017

Peeling a mango inside her rickety wooden shack, Chhum Long explained how her daughter’s decision to nurture a Western couple’s...

The Earth in orbit, with one side illuminated by the sun, and the other side in darkness.
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times | 06.17.2017

There’s a well-to-do couple thinking about having children. They order a battery of genetic tests to ensure that there’s nothing...

Two pigs, in a barn, gaze directly at the camera.
By Angela Chen, The Verge | 06.16.2017

The road to growing organs in pigs is paved with ethical questions

In 2003, a South Korean company called Maria...

A double helix diagonally positioned as if it were moving. Small speckles surround it.
By Ed Young, The Atlantic | 06.16.2017

Three Stanford scientists have proposed a provocative new way of thinking about genetic variants, and how they affect people’s bodies

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Microscopic image of an oocyte and the tip of a syringe.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.16.2017

Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been...

DNA profile illuminated by a light.
By Nathan Tempey, Gothamist | 06.16.2017

A state commission voted this morning to adopt a controversial policy allowing police to perform familial DNA searches in certain...