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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...

gene editing
By John Travis , Science | 07.27.2026

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine over the weekend said it would launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously...

stop forced sterilization
By Lillian Kollross , Ms. Magazine | 07.25.2026

In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...

kidney transplant
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.23.2026

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...

DNA dissolving
By Brendan Borrell, Science | 07.23.2026

The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...

IVF
By Julianne McShane, MS NOW | 07.23.2026

With their sights set on winning control of Congress in November, Senate Democrats are reviving a legislative effort to dramatically...

gene therapy graphic on purple background
By Gina Kolata , The New York Times | 07.21.2026

Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...

DNA strand
By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, The New York Times | 07.20.2026

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...

IVF graphic
By Oscar Lopez, The Guardian | 07.19.2026

Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...