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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...

Illustrated painting of the torso of a doctor in a white coat, holding their hand up as a gesture of silence or omniscient authority.
By Shena Cavallo, openDemocracy | 09.12.2016

Under Fujimori, thousands of indigenous women and men were sterilized against their will. Today, activists and organizations keep on fighting

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The planet Earth
By Brooke Borel, The Atlantic | 09.12.2016

In a crowded auditorium at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in August, Philipp Messer, a population geneticist at...

Illustrated image of shackled hands. Inside the hands lie words of systemic social injustice, such as "classism" and "racism."
By Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica | 09.12.2016

The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police...

Black and white photo of Wall Street.
By Ben Fidler, Xconomy | 09.12.2016

Investors hoping to buy into the vast, yet still unproven drugmaking potential of the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 will soon...

Embryonic bodies.
By Sheila Black, The New York Times | 09.07.2016

When I was pregnant with my first child, my ob-gyn referred me to a genetic counselor “just in case.”

I...

Bird's eye view of test tube rack filled with test tubes.
By Sheila Kaplan, STAT | 09.07.2016

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday warned women and their doctors that current screening tests for ovarian cancer are...

An individual clasps hands over face, suggesting feelings of being overwhelmed or stressed.
By Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 09.07.2016

Women are choosing to freeze their eggs to gain time to find the right partner rather than to pursue their...

A fire burns
By Claire Hope Cummings, Project Syndicate | 09.06.2016

A cynical move is underway to promote a new, powerful, and troubling technology known as “gene drives” for use in...