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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...

Graphic of a scientist looking at sperm and an egg under a microscope
By Pat Duggins, Alabama Public Radio | 06.27.2025

PAT DUGGINS-- If I were to say, ‘man, have you seen the price of eggs these days?’ You're probably thinking...

DNA graphic
By Pallab Gosh and Gwyndaf Hughes, BBC News | 06.26.2025

Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is...

graphic showing approval of certain genes and rejection of others
By Sophie Alexander and Ike Swetlitz, Bloomberg | 06.25.2025

A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money...

Elon Musk headshot
By Charlie Warzel and Hana Kiros, The Atlantic | 06.24.2025

Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

In April, Ezibon Khamis was dispatched...

mouse
By Rhys Blakely, The Times | 06.24.2025

Scientists have created fertile mice from male genetic material alone, a breakthrough that could one day open the door to...

Seedlings in a tray
By Save Our Seeds and GMWatch, Save Our Seeds | 06.23.2025

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture...

Graphic of two scientists on either side of a DNA strand
By Ed Cara, Gizmodo | 06.22.2025

In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call...

stem cell graphic
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.20.2025

A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe...