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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...

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By Tristan Manalac, BioSpace | 04.02.2024

Verve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a...

EGG FREEZING
By Rae Nudson, The Cut | 04.02.2024

At one point during Lisa Xu’s second round of egg freezing last year, she thought to herself, How did I...

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By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 04.01.2024

A Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for his role in creating the world’s first genetically edited babies says he has...

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By Sabrina Souza and Zoe Sottile, CNN | 04.01.2024

Michigan has become the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy on Monday, after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package...

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By Eric Cheung, CNN | 03.30.2024

For married Taiwanese men Alan Hung and Danny Huang, the process of having a biological child together was never easy...

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By Eleanor Hayward and Joanna Crawford, The Times | 03.29.2024

Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...

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By Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...

sam altman at TechCrunch conference
By Hilary Brueck, Business Insider | 03.23.2024

"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...