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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...

Donald Trump
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times | 10.11.2024

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

Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...

DNA graphic
By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

graphic of gene therapy
By Jocelyn Kaiser , Science | 10.09.2024

Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...

Trump
By Isabela Dias, Mother Jones | 10.07.2024

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It was...

DNA dissolving
By Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine | 10.02.2024

WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...

sickle cell graphic
By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 09.28.2024

Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe...

a graphic of crispr gene editing
By Sara Moretto, The Varsity | 09.22.2024

It was 2020. I was wrapping up grade nine science with a solid 60 per cent, hoping that if anyone...

Gene Therapy Illustration
By Don Sapatkin, Managed Healthcare Executive | 09.20.2024

Gene therapy comes with the expectation that it will “cure” an expanding number of genetic disorders. If you’ve never wondered...