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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...

Blue background with a hospital bag hanging from a metal stand in front of it.
By Claire Booth, The Conversation | 06.12.2024

Image by Marcelo Leal from Unsplash

Individually, rare diseases are rare, but there are so many rare diseases that over ...

Pink, blue, and red depiction of cancer cells.
By Sarah Gantz, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 06.10.2024

Image by NIH Image Gallery from Flickr

Penn Medicine’s patients of color are far less likely than white patients to...

a graphic of scissors taking out a section of a dna strand
By Alison Snyder, Axios | 06.06.2024

Gene editing's next chapter will be focused on tackling cancers and more common diseases, uncovering new details about aging...

Dark haired person wearing protective laboratory gear handling a set of test tubes
By Marc Zimmer, The Conversation | 06.06.2024

Image by the National Cancer Institute from Unsplash

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today...

IVF
By Natalie Krebs, NPR | 06.04.2024

For seven years, Jacqueline Brock endured grueling fertility treatments – and all of the emotion that came with them.

“I...

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By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times | 06.04.2024

Peter Diamandis, a week away from turning 63, bounds out of a Starbucks on a recent morning with a cup...

Spacious greenhouse with growing potted plants lined up in several rows.
By Miri (Margaret) Raven, Alana Gall, Bibi Barba, and Daniel Robinson, The Conversation | 06.02.2024

Image by Ahmet Kurt from Unsplash

Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World...

two bowls of rice, one white one golden
By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 06.02.2024

With the recent Philippines court decision blocking the further planting of GM Golden Rice in the country, pro-GMO advocates have...