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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...

Two teammates of a tug-of-war game are pictured, with competitive looks on their faces as they cling to the rope. Onlookers look entertained.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 09.20.2016

Getting stuff right is normally regarded as science’s central aim. But a new analysis has raised the existential spectre that...

Crime scene tape, gloves, and packages of evidence are stacked in a pile on a desk.
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | 09.20.2016

Widely used methods to trace complex DNA samples, bullets, tread and bite marks to criminal defendants fall short of scientific...

Patient's arm is injected.
By David Wagner, KPBS | 09.20.2016

Jim Gass made sure to record the moment in an iPhone video because he’d paid tens of thousands of dollars...

Canadian flag flies against the winter air.
By Yvonne Bombard, Ronald Cohn & Stephen Scherer, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 09.19.2016

Canada is close to catching up with other Western countries in protecting the most fundamental of information: our genetic code...

Darkened image of a pregnant woman's torso, showing only a side view of her stomach. She is holding the bottom of her stomach.
By Julie McCarthy, NPR | 09.18.2016

Isha Devi hails from Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, built by a grieving king for a beloved queen. Isha...

Illustrated picture of a patient inside of a doctor's office.
By Michael Cook, BioEdge [citing CGS' Elliot Hosman] | 09.16.2016

This chirpy video about genetic engineering explains the complex present and speculative future quite well although it probably takes too...

Three wine glasses are pictured. One glass has a red liquid, another has a blue liquid. The final glass picture has a clear transparency, which displays the red and blue glasses through it.
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.16.2016

The disappointing results of clinical trials will no longer be able to languish unpublished, thanks to rules released on 16...

An individual sits, reading a newspaper/
By Gretchen Vogel, Science Magazine | 09.14.2016

No, scientists have not figured out how to make “motherless babies,” nor have they gotten any closer to making an...