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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...

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By Jared Whitlock, Endpoints News | 07.15.2025

Patient groups face a harder and unpredictable path going state-by-state to boost screening for rare but treatable conditions after the...

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By Lucy Tu, The Atlantic | 07.11.2025

Donald Trump—who is, by his own accounting, “the fertilization president” and “the father of IVF”—wants to help Americans reproduce. During...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.11.2025

The Walking Egg project is bringing IVF to rural communities in South Africa.

This week I’m sending congratulations to two...

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By Annika Inampudi, Science | 07.10.2025

Before a baby in the United States reaches a few days old, doctors will run biochemical tests on a few...

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By Suzanne O'Sullivan, New Scientist | 07.09.2025

Rare diseases are often hard to spot. They can evade detection until irreversible organ damage or disability has already set...

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By Alice Park, TIME | 07.08.2025

Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to appear soon...

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By Philip Bump, Washington Post | 07.07.2025

There are a lot of questions worth asking about the New York Times’s report on Thursday about New York City...

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By Oliver Rollins, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.06.2025

ON OCTOBER 7, 2024, in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, then–presidential candidate Donald Trump said of immigrants that...