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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 woman is attentively drawn to the smart phone she holds in her hands.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 04.28.2017

Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care – an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health...

An image of a human figure in a white tank top is mirrored by seven screens, adding more depth to the figure.
By Aaron Panofsky, Cultural Anthropology | 04.28.2017

This article is part of the series Evil Infrastructures.

What happens when white supremacists take genetic ancestry tests (GAT)...

A white woman is wrapped in Lottery scratchers, with a big smile.
By Gina Bellafante, New York Times | 04.27.2017

Dr. John Zhang, a well-known specialist in reproductive medicine who runs the New Hope Fertility Center out of a vast...

A team of surgeons are performs surgery. The patient is not visible.
By Wang Lianzhang, Sixth Tone | 04.27.2017

Fertility problems and lack of donors continue to prop up black market.

A 17-year-old girl sold more than 20 of...

Bird's eye view of a cutting board, displaying vegetables and an uncooked salmon. A bowl of peppercorns are plated to its side.
By Tess Doezema, Slate | 04.26.2017

The debate over a fish shows that scientists can be too quick to dismiss the public’s concerns.

“Keep Frankenfish off...

A US-100 dollar bill and 100 euro are tied by a rope together.
By Paul Basken , Chronicle of Higher Education | 04.25.2017

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are toughening their financial conflict-of-interest policies after publishing reports that some critics...

Female hospital patient lays in bed appearing asleep. Beside her is a TV.
By Tracy Middleton, Women's Health magazine | 04.24.2017

Genetic testing, once the realm of science fiction, has come so far that millions of physicians, and their patients, use...

Close up photo of a globe, turned on its side to display the United States and Mexico.
By César Palacios-González, BioNews | 04.24.2017

It is not every day that we can examine the details of the first use of a new reproductive technology...