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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 is a graphic of a vial with a red cap filled with blood, and a circle containing a zoom-in view of the blood inside the vial, which shows crescent-shaped blood cells indicative of sickle cell disease.
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Scientific American | 05.22.2024

Last fall, to great fanfare, US regulators approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, and the European Union...

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By Eric Boodman, STAT | 05.21.2024

BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later, Whitney Carter’s mind kept flicking...

Image is a graphic of an individual holding a vial that is depicted to contain sperm, with a graphic right next to it showing this being recorded on a piece of paper.
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, NPR | 05.14.2024

JOHNSON COUNTY, Kansas — Ever since she was little, Sharla knew she wanted to be a mom. Sharla has...

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By Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School | 05.14.2024

At a glance: 

Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.14.2024

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When Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Bloomberg | 05.14.2024

Answers to our greatest questions, we were told about a decade ago, could be ours if we just spat in...

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By Oliver James Campbell, The Guardian | 05.13.2024

As someone who has been hard of hearing since I was a teenager, I read with great interest about the...

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By Gabriel Borelli, Pew Research Center | 05.13.2024

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The political debate around access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) intensified this year,  following...