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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...

Patient lays horizontally. Image is a close up of a patient undergoing an eye procedure as a doctor touches the eye with an instrument.
By Denise Grady, New York Times | 03.15.2017

Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at...

Blood cells traveling through a vessel.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2017

Over the course of seven years, Sezenia Tzeni endured seven rounds of in vitro fertilization. Typically, women undergo only three...

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By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center | 03.14.2017

In the past few weeks media outlets have been reporting on the release of Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and...

A person faces a maze on the wall and uses their fingers to trace a path within the maze.
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genome Magazine | 03.13.2017

"Can we cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime?” The pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder...

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By Steve May, VT Digger | 03.13.2017

Charles Murray, who spoke recently at Middlebury College, has reprised “the best of eugenics” to inform his lectures and writings...

Drawing of the message "YOU." The letter "O" is drawn as a clock figure that is attached as if it were a kite, and being held by a silhouette of the grim reaper. The letter "U" is turned into a sign that reads "No U Turn."
By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 03.13.2017

The life insurance business is all about betting on how long you’re likely to live. Now, one company is turning to the...

An art piece displaying a central mannequin figure in a work suit holding a luggage bag. Surrounding this figure are several surveillance cameras fixated on the figure.
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 03.10.2017

A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty...

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By Jordan Pearson, VICE Motherboard | 03.09.2017

But insurance companies say it's unconstitutional.

On Wednesday night, Canadian parliament bucked the Prime Minister to pass a law that...