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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...

Image of in vitro fertilization
By Editorial Staff, The Lancet | 07.20.2024

Image by DrKontogianniIVF from Wikimedia Commons

Despite major advances in securing sexual and reproductive rights globally, one aspect is continually...

Image of JD Vance giving a speech
By Mesha Maren , Salon | 07.20.2024

Image by Gage Skidmore from Flickr licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly...

a graphic of a "superbaby"
By Julia Black and Margaux MacColl, The Information [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.19.2024

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

Image of Galton's gravesite listing him as the "founder of eugenics."
By Aubrey Clayton, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.18.2024

Image "Sir Francis Galton" by Spudgun67 from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

IN 2013, A SERIES of ads...

vials of blood with a yellow background case
By Sarah Kliff and Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times | 07.15.2024

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

Millions of pregnant women get the pitch...

a graphic of a person removing a piece of a dna strand
By Alcott Wei, South China Morning Post | 07.13.2024

China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.

Germline gene engineering relates...

Image of IVF lab equipment
By Staff, AP-NORC | 07.12.2024

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Most adults support protecting access to in...

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By Parmy Olson, Bloomberg Opinion | 07.12.2024

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Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games promise to be...