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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...

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By Rebecca Simkin, BioNews | 06.29.2026

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing biotech company Regenxbio to reapply for licensing of a gene therapy...

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By Marisa Flook , BioNews | 06.29.2026

An anti-ageing gene therapy not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to be offered by...

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By Samuelle Fajutrao Falk , The Conversation | 06.26.2026

When my colleagues and I asked autistic people and parents of autistic children in Sweden how they feel about genetic...

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By Michael Le Page , New Scientist | 06.25.2026

We now know the master gene that controls embryonic development in people. Called NANOG, its role has been identified by...

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By Carl Zimmer and Catrin Einhorn, The New York Times | 06.25.2026

The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on...

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By Ashley Smart , Undark | 06.24.2026

As Edward Donnell Ivy remembers it, many of the sickle cell episodes he endured in his 20s were akin to headaches...

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By Paul Knoepfler, Stat | 06.24.2026

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to...

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By Lauren Roberts, ABC News | 06.23.2026

Deanna Carr's early 20s looked very different to most people's.

"While everyone was travelling Europe and doing all those great...