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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 container is filled with cotton swabs.
By Eli Rosenberg, The New York Times | 01.27.2017

The leads have dried up in the killing of a young woman in Queens during a jog last summer.

Tips...

Railroad tracks are blocked by a buffer stop.
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 01.26.2017

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) today issued a statement urging against clinical genome editing in human...

Four pigs pear over a metal bar.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2017

Prospect of growing human organs for transplantation raised by creation of first ever embryos combining two large, distantly related species...

A newborn baby's feet are shown, with a hospital tag on the left foot.
By Jeff Lyon, The JAMA Network | 01.25.2017

Several years ago, a ray of light appeared in pediatric care when researchers devised a way to reset a child’s...

Three candles are lit in a darkened room.
By The Times editorial board, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2017

As  part of the vile eugenics movement that swept the country during the first half of the 20th century, more than...

Against a shirt with black and gold stripes, a sticker reads "Do you care?" in a thought/speech bubble.
By Edward Hockings and Lewis Coyne, Ethics and Genetics [cites CGS] | 01.20.2017

KEY POINTS

  • UK biosciences policy has become increasingly motivated by economic considerations in recent years, at the expense, we believe...
A prescription bottle lays on its side, with pills spilling out of its container
By Robert Faturechi , ProPublica | 01.19.2017

After hearing from a company whose CEO was a campaign contributor, a congressional aide to Donald Trump’s HHS nominee repeatedly

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A suitcase is open, with money over flowing.
By Charles Piller, STAT [cites CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.19.2017

It’s been more than a decade since California launched an unprecedented experiment in medical research by direct democracy, when voters...