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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...

X-ray image of a pair of lungs
By Katie LaGrone, WPTV | 06.28.2024

Image by National Cancer Institute from Unsplash

TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa jury recently found the now-defunct Lung Institute in...

Image of a model human brain
By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 06.27.2024

Image by Robina Weermeijer from Unsplash

A molecular-editing tool that’s small enough to be delivered to the brain shuts down...

DNA dissolving
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.27.2024

Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...

Image of a European Union meeting room
By Shivam Jadaun and Shivani, JURISTnews | 06.27.2024

Image by European Council from Flickr

In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still...

Partial image from Bridge Recombination Mechanism video
By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.26.2024

Partial screenshot from The Bridge Recombination Mechanism
video by The Arc Institute on YouTube (CC)

Buried in a family...

Green, blue, and yellow image of a stem cell
By David Jensen [cites CGS' Pete Shanks], The California Stem Cell Report | 06.24.2024

Image by NIH Image Gallery from Flickr

The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...

Red and yellow poster stating: "Only healthy seed must be sown! Check the seeds of hereditary disease and unfitness by eugenics."
By Sheila Kaplan, UC Berkeley School of Public Health | 06.20.2024

Image by Gennie Stafford from Flickr

These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.

The...