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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...

biotech graphic
By Annalee Armstrong, BioSpace | 09.11.2024

Complex gene therapies are starting to hit the market but all have faced the same reality: a tepid reception from...

Synthetic Embryo
By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.11.2024

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like...

interior of ivf clinic
By Andrew Messenger, The Guardian | 09.10.2024

A groundbreaking legislated crackdown on Queensland fertility providers has sparked calls to establish a national register for children conceived with...

woman laying with an iv
By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

Image by Stephen Andrews from Unsplash

Yale agreed on Monday to pay dozens of patients who had filed lawsuits claiming...

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By Ari Schulman, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

Stethoscope
By Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling, Stat | 09.03.2024

Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In her 20 years caring for...

graphic of sperm donor
By Sophie Zadeh, PET | 09.02.2024

Dr Sophie Zadeh presents an overview of the Young Adults Study which has garnered the views of donor conceived young...