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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 water droplet falls into a larger pool of liquid, leaving behind ripples to the surface.
By Michael Specter, New Yorker | 01.02.2017

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Hyannis*, bound for...

A wooden-like figure of a child builds a colorful tower of blocks. The child sits in a background surrounded by white and black checkered flooring.
By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 01.01.2017

The next year may represent our best chance to prevent the rise of a modern, uncontrolled and dangerously ill-considered techno-eugenics...

Black and white photo of a young baby looking out distantly.
By Jill Neimark, NPR | 01.01.2017

In September, reproductive endocrinologist John Zhang and his team at the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City captured...

Illustrated image of a DNA molecule.
By Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post, [cites CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.30.2016

Lindsay Weekes knew something was wrong as soon as her son was born.

Her pregnancy had been easy. The baby...

Colorful DNA stains are displayed side by side.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.29.2016

Jedidiah Carlson was googling a genetics research paper when he stumbled upon the white nationalist forum Stormfront. Carlson is a...

Clock with both hands pointed near the midnight hour.
By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee | 12.24.2016

Adding year-end urgency to the national debate over stem cells, a prominent UC Davis researcher is asking federal officials to...

By admin | 12.23.2016

Somatic gene transfer involves adding genes to cells other than egg or sperm cells. If you had a lung disease...

A gloved hand swabs a knife to collect DNA for evidence.
By Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times | 12.22.2016

California lawmakers are once again trying to expand the collection of DNA evidence in criminal cases, something they say has declined...