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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...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 05.27.2016

The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys.

The first brought hundreds of thousands of...

By Agence France-Presse, The Guardian | 05.27.2016

The Dutch government has announced it wants to allow growing human embryos “under strict and limited conditions” for scientific research...

By Joe Matthews (Zócalo Public Square), Huffington Post | 05.27.2016

Near the end of a wide-ranging conversation about the complexity of the human genome and the history and future of...

By Aaron Carroll (The Incidental Economist), Academy Health Blog | 05.27.2016

For many, many years we’ve been hearing about gene therapy – the chance that we can get into people’s DNA...

By Carl Zimmer, STAT | 05.26.2016
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At the American Museum of Natural History, the venerable Science Talent Search announced Thursday that it was changing...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.25.2016

The biggest beneficiary of a plan to fabricate a human genome from scratch could be a Massachusetts startup called Gen9...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Dan Sarewitz, Samuel Weiss Evans, Arvis Sulovari, Eric A. Widra, Zócalo Public Square | 05.24.2016

With the ubiquitous ways we apply our knowledge of genetics today—in crop seeds, medicine, space—it’s hard to believe the...

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, Fusion | 05.24.2016

In 2006, author Alon Ziv published the first edition of Breeding Between the Lines, a haphazard exploration of the...