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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 Eleonore Pauwels and Jim Dratwa, Scientific American | 03.13.2015

From designer babies to women whose genitals smell like peaches, 2014 graced us with a taste of the hope...

By John Horgan, Scientific American [Blogs] | 03.13.2015
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In 1990 The New York Times published a front-page article by Lawrence Altman, a reporter with a medical...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 03.13.2015
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American scientists have attempted to modify the DNA of human egg cells using a new gene-editing technique that...

By Robert Klitzman, CNN | 03.13.2015
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"I decided to get genetic testing on the outside without telling my doctor," a woman recently told me...

By Nayef Al-Rodhan, Scientific American | 03.13.2015
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In the past four decades technology has fundamentally altered our lives: from the way we work to how...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2015
Untitled Document Officials of a biotechnology industry group have called for a voluntary moratorium on using new DNA-editing techniques to...
By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 03.12.2015
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As I reported earlier, 23andMe today announced its intention to pursue pharmaceutical R&D, in addition to its...

By Edward Lanphier, Fyodor Urnov, Sarah Ehlen Haecker, Michael Werner & Joanna Smolenski, Nature News | 03.12.2015
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It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos...