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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...

Red Blood Cells
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.17.2024

For most of her life, Genesis Jones’s daily routine revolved around her illness, the painful blood disorder known as sickle-cell...

a graphic depicting preference for one set of DNA over another
By Gabby Del Valle, The Baffler | 09.17.2024

IT’S A COMMON STORY, banal, even: a child of privilege, an heir apparent, leaves for college to get a good...

the capitol building
By Deirdre Walsh , NPR | 09.17.2024

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to provide a nationwide right to IVF treatments. It was the second time Senate...

sickled red blood cells
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.16.2024

There was supposed to be a special party for Kendric Cromer, 12, last Wednesday, but it had to be postponed...

egg and scientist injecting it
By Matthew Rozsa, Salon | 09.15.2024

When a person with a uterus decides to freeze their eggs, any number of things can go wrong. Ice...

IVF
By Megan Agnew, The Times | 09.15.2024

Faith Hartley always wanted two girls — a blonde and a redhead. “I thought, I’ll have one that looks like...

test tube and insurance card
By Irin Carmon, New York | 09.14.2024

At Tuesday night’s debate, seemingly stung by Kamala Harris’s assertion that IVF treatments have been curtailed “under Donald Trump’s abortion...

Japanese flag with blue building in background
By Staff, Kyodo News | 09.13.2024

Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash

The Japanese government and people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgeries from the...