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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 display of a human portrait face, from Heather Dewey-Hagborg's 2012 art project called “Stranger Visions.”
By Jason Koebler, VICE Motherboard | 11.18.2016

Gene editing and new biological engineering techniques have allowed our minds to run wild: In the last few years, we’ve...

John Holdren is pictured against a solid mustard yellow background.
By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 11.18.2016

In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed physicist H. Guyford Stever as the first Director of the Office of Science and...

A bubble of soap--the size of an adult hand-- is being blown through a wand.
By Andrew Burmon, Inverse | 11.18.2016

When the Democratic Party gave up on technology, progressivism malfunctioned. Now, technophile liberals are preparing to fix a movement.

In...

A pregnant person stands close to a baby's crib.
By Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times | 11.17.2016

BEIJING — The Singapore government has deployed financial incentives and even Mentos mints to increase births. In Russia, more money...

An archived, black and white photo of David Starr Jordan who advocated eugenic practices.
By Jacqueline Lee, San Jose Mercury News | 11.17.2016

Incorporating the topic of eugenics and the city’s history with that practice into lesson plans at Palo Alto schools is an idea...

Microscopic image of nerological cells-- as an example of nondividing cells.
By Ian Johnston, The Independent [UK] | 11.16.2016

Scientists have discovered a new way to edit DNA that could fix “broken genes” in the brain, cure previously incurable...

Silver US Mail box, with the statement, "Approved by the Post-Master General." In the background of mailbox are leaves from a bush.
By Phil Galewitz, KQED California Healthline | 11.16.2016

When the abortion pills arrived in her mailbox this summer, she felt anxious but also in control, knowing she could...

Blueprint image of crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with guide RNA and "Target DNA"
By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 11.15.2016

The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.

A Chinese group has...