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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...

Portrait of Steve Bannon.
By Laurel Raymond, Think Progress | 11.28.2016

Former Breitbart head Steve Bannon has been a national lightning rod ever since he was appointed CEO of Donald Trump’s...

A genome sequence printed inside of a book.
By Alex Harding, Xconomy | 11.28.2016

Scientists are engineering a new living thing: a radically modified version of the lowly bacterium E. coli. In an ...

Molecular image of an egg.
By Deborah Cohen, BBC Panorama | 11.28.2016

Nearly all costly add-on treatments offered by UK fertility clinics to increase the chance of a birth through IVF are...

A flow of money is falling against a plain black background.
By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.28.2016

It was a good day for UniQure, a Dutch biotech company at work on gene therapies for rare diseases. A...

Illustrative image of DNA strands and molecules.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 11.22.2016

When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister.

In August 2015, Samantha...

Silhouette of a pregnant body is shown, with their face pointed down and holding their stomach.
By Prak Chan Thul, Reuters | 11.21.2016

A Cambodian court charged an Australian nurse on Monday for allegedly operating an illegal fertility clinic, police said, weeks after...

A clock's edges are shown spiraling into several other clocks.
By Daniel Oberhaus, VICE Motherboard | 11.21.2016

Last week the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which consists of 18 scientists and policy experts...

Illustrative art that represents faceless human individuals standing in line like dominoes. Some in the back have been knocked over and may potentially fall onto the next person in the line.
By Sara Novic, VICE | 11.18.2016

"'All men are created equal.' Well, it's not true."

That's President-elect Donald Trump, a clip unearthed for a PBS documentary...