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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 with three babies
By Ariel Messman-Rucker, Pride | 04.30.2025

Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights...

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By Aitor Hernandez-Morales, Politico | 04.30.2025

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The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from registering children...

eugenics illustration
By Jonathan Michels, Jacobin | 04.29.2025

In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate...

A gene therapy cartoon
By Laura Ungar, Associated Press | 04.26.2025

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...

Simone and Malcolm Collins with children
By Lisa Hagen, NPR | 04.25.2025

The Collins Family, by TeggorMindFish, CC 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...

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By Philip Bump, The Washington Post | 04.24.2025

My wife and I decided to have children for an entirely prosaic reason: We wanted to start a family. I’m...

A symbol of autism
By David Badash , AlterNet | 04.24.2025

The Trump administration reportedly has plans to scrape your private medical data from sources like your doctor, your pharmacy, your...

Autism awareness ribbon
By Jessica Grose, The New York Times | 04.23.2025

"Autism Awareness Ribbon" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held...