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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...

Close-up of an adult hand gently touching a baby's curled up hand.
By Antonio Regelado, MIT Technology Review | 06.15.2017

Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of

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A pot of boiling water cooks two corns.
By Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post | 06.13.2017

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Green stalks have only just begun to sprout in the test fields where biotech giant DuPont Pioneer is...

Microscopic photo of intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2017

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000

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A test tube rack is filled with test tubes. A gloved hand lifts one of the open test tubes, positioned to read the label.
By Francie Diep, Pacific Standard | 06.12.2017

Advances in DNA profiling bring up some interesting questions.

Despite what procedural dramas might lead you to believe, the DNA...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.12.2017

When people talk about the gene-editing technology CRISPR, it’s usually accompanied by adjectives like “revolutionary” or “world-changing...

Landscape photo of the US Supreme Court building. with the sun and blue sky above.
By Osagie Obasogie, The Atlantic | 06.12.2017

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the

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Hall displaying several Nobel Prize Laureates.
By Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine | 06.09.2017

The Repository for Germinal Choice was supposed to produce super-kids from the sperm of white high achievers

Robert Klark Graham...

Several containers, with clear liquid are placed side by side in a test tube rack.
By Charles Piller, STAT | 06.08.2017

Federal investigators searched a California DNA testing lab Wednesday and hauled away boxes of documents as part of a health...