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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...

IVF lab equipment photo
By Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times | 03.13.2025

A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive...

eugenics graphic on yellow background
By Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 03.11.2025

In his first address to the United States after becoming vice-president, JD Vance stood on stage and proclaimed: “I want...

Computing inside and outside a brain
By Craig S. Smith, Forbes | 03.08.2025

One recent evening in Shenzhen, a group of software engineers gathered in a dimly lit co-working space, furiously typing as...

selection of embryos
By Jamie Ducharme, TIME | 03.06.2025

After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization...

Asilomar beach
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.05.2025

Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash

On a nearly still and moonlit night last week, some 75 people formed a circle...

eugenics graphic
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously...

Elon Musk
By Justin Kirkland, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

Image “Elon Musk” by Debbie Rowe, Royal Society on
Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

I got into...

Stop Forced Sterilization graphic
By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 02.28.2025

“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero,
San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...