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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...

the logo of the Future of Humanity Institute with a red "X" superimposed
By Andrew Anthony, The Guardian | 04.28.2024

Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford...

Image shows two pigs behind a wire fence in a grassy area. One pig is bent down facing away while the other pig is facing directly at the camera.
By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.24.2024

Lisa Pisano was lying in a hospital bed at NYU Langone Health, hooked up to beeping monitors and an array...

DNA strand
By Cade Metz, The New York Times | 04.22.2024

Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters...

multicolor strands of DNA on blue gradient background
By Carrie Arnold, Nature Biotechnology | 04.17.2024

Tome Biosciences came out of stealth mode on 12 December with a haul of over $200 million to develop the...

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By Osagie K. Obasogie, L.A. Review of Books | 04.17.2024

 

When Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for developing in vitro fertilization...

DNA dissolving
By Yelena Biberman and Jonathan D. Moreno, Bioethics Forum | 04.16.2024

A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict. The level...

worker in a lab pipettes
By Eric Schmidt, TIME | 04.16.2024

Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics...

AI
By Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres, First Monday | 04.14.2024

The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)...