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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...

best baby graphic
By Dan Falk, Nautilus | 08.20.2026

The pseudoscience of eugenics, founded on the mistaken notion that nature envisions some “right” combination of genes, and that selective...

hospital clinic in black and white
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 08.20.2026

China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in...

a plaque describing the 1907 Indiana eugenics law
By Aimee Minbiole, Dartmouth News | 08.19.2026

An innovative new website, Eugenic States: A Contextual Archive, uses digital storytelling to preserve and illuminate a disturbing and...

Donald Trump
By Jenni Fink, Newsweek | 08.19.2026

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit...

ivf interrupted
By Anna Collinson and Jo Adnitt, BBC | 08.18.2026

At least 30 children, most of them British, are feared to have been conceived by IVF treatment in northern Cyprus...

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By Emily Packard Dawson and Lainie Friedman Ross, MedPage Today | 08.18.2026

Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation...

stem cells
By Editors, Nature | 08.18.2026

Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a...

immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing medical inspection
By Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times | 08.13.2026

Immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing a medical inspection | Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

In 1924...