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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...

Silhouette of three figures walking with bare feet across the ground. In the distance is the sun rise.
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.20.2017

The San people of southern Africa are among the most-studied indigenous groups in the world. Legions of researchers have investigated...

A young baby with a soother in their mouth, stares at the camera as they grasp the window that displays their reflection
By Ryan Menezes, Cracked | 03.20.2017

If you've made the joke recently about how Idiocracy is coming true, ask yourself this: How would you fix it...

Separate black and white portraits juxtaposing Lewis Terman and David Starr Jordan.
By Jacqueline Lee, Mercury News | 03.17.2017

District’s schools will include a unit about California and Palo Alto’s role in the eugenics movement

Two Palo Alto middle...

Two babies lay side by side on two separate pillows, appearing to sleep.
By Gabe Cohen, KOMO News | 03.17.2017

A Seattle fertility doctor says more patients are asking for twins because of Beyoncé and George Clooney, though doctors are...

Artistic structure that displays the letters representing DNA-bases ATCG, in a glass wall.
By Martina Cornel, New Scientist | 03.17.2017

A proposed law effectively allowing US employers to require workers to take DNA tests and hand over the results is

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A bare torso of a pregnant woman is centrally touched by four different hands.
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 03.16.2017

Britain's Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people to prevent...

A distant photo of a tool shed.
By Editorial, New Scientist | 03.15.2017

The gene-editing revolution continues to gather pace, but it is also throwing us curveballs. One is an unexpected technical hitch (see...

A teddy bear is turned on its side, on the floor of a darkened room.
By United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Population Fund | 03.15.2017

“I’ve been a priest for 25 years. During this time, I’ve met a lot of families ready to terminate their...