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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...

Egg Donation
By Pandora Dewan, Newsweek | 09.02.2024

Egg donation offers thousands of U.S. couples the opportunity to start a family, enabling them to carry a child when...

Donald Trump photo
By Hannah Flynn, PET | 09.02.2024

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge 11" by Michael Vadon licensed under CC by SA 4.0

Donald Trump has...

a photo of the office of J. Marion Sims in Alabama
By Kylie Marsh and Herbert L. White , The Charlotte Post | 08.31.2024
crispr
By Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science | 08.26.2024

Since CRISPR was first conceived as a gene-editing tool in 2012, scientists have seen its awesome potential.

It promises to...

crispr
By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Live Science | 08.26.2024

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that...

Osagie K. Obasogie
By Gwyneth Shaw, Berkeley Law | 08.23.2024

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Professor Osagie K. Obasogie, a professor of law and bioethics and...

a graphic of a masked doctor opting for one gene over another
By Emily R. Klancher Merchant, Los Angeles Review of Books | 08.22.2024

IN THE Operation Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, 50 wealthy parents were charged with trying to get their children into...

Gene Editing
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.22.2024

In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just...