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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 book lies open in the middle, propped up by a book stand. Out of focus, in the background are several other books and religious artifacts.
By Los Angeles Times | 04.11.2017

Scientist have begun to bring together stem cells that reorganize themselves to form ebryo-like structures. It won’t be long before...

A smeared coffee mug sits on a little platter beside an opened laptop computer with charts.
By Mary Ann Mason and Tom Ekman, Wired [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2017

While sperm has been successfully frozen for decades, it wasn’t until 1999, when flash-freezing procedures were introduced, that eggs could...

A woman of color holds a demonstration sign reading, "George Orwell, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood--They warned us!"
By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Gap Junction Science | 04.11.2017

The January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington, DC was quite the eye-opener. I am not a naïve marcher, since...

23andMe logo featuring a pink and green chromosome.
By Turna Ray, Genome Web | 04.11.2017

The top organization in the US responsible for developing genetic testing guidelines is not on board with the US Food...

A 23andMe box is opened, revealing the spit kit equipment.
By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz | 04.10.2017

Doctors are losing their role as the gatekeeper of our health information, for better or worse.

Last week, the US...

Jeff Sessions, a white male, wear a pair of glasses. He sits behind a desk and points a finger, about to make a statement.
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | 04.10.2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has...

Black and white photo of human skull.
By John Gray, New Statesman | 04.09.2017

Meet the transhumanists who believe that the brain can outlive the body.

"Dead of the world, unite!” Appearing in a...

Microscopic image of three distinct types of cells
By Robert Hart, Slate | 04.07.2017

As with many new fields, synthetic biology—which incorporates disparate disciplines like engineering, computer science, biotechnology, and molecular biology—is hard to...