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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 Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.23.2016
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Ruthie Weiss’s basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss. But even as she...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.23.2016
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New gene editing technologies like the CRISPR-Cas9 technique hold great promise for medicine and the biological sciences. Some...

By Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News | 02.23.2016

U.S. companies racing to develop a promising gene editing technology are up against a formidable competitor -- the Chinese government.

China...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 02.23.2016
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Chadam v. PAUSD, as previously covered on Genomics Law Report, is a case in which parents...

By Danielle Venton, KQED Science | 02.22.2016
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When you hear “gene editing,” do you think cancer cures? Designer babies? What about new fuel sources or drought-tolerant...

By Robert Gebelhoff, The Washington Post | 02.22.2016
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For a half-century, the ethics of human genetic engineering have been discussed in the abstract. Because the tools...

By Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times | 02.22.2016
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As diagnostic tests rely on ever-tinier amounts of blood, some scientists are striking a note of caution. As...

By John Vibes, The Free Thought Project | 02.21.2016
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New York, NY – A group of scientists who worked at a crime lab for the New York...