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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...

Sickle Cell
By Nada Hassanein, New Jersey Monitor | 03.14.2024

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year approved two breakthrough gene therapies for sickle cell disease patients. Now...

sickle cell fertility on scales
By Gerry Smith, Bloomberg | 03.12.2024

When Celenise Mahmood first learned about two new gene therapies that could cure sickle cell disease, she felt a wave...

Farm
By Matt Novak, Gizmodo | 03.12.2024

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers...

egg freezing
By Anna Collinson, Maryam Ahmed and Bella McShane, BBC | 03.12.2024

Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...

Artificial Intelligence graphic
By Billy Perrigo, TIME | 03.11.2024

The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which...

Chickens
By Carol Cardona and Michelle Kromm, Scientific American | 03.11.2024

Recently, a group of scientists announced a breakthrough approach to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu or avian flu)...

gene therapy
By Betsy McKay, The Wall Street Journal | 03.11.2024

Akintunde Odunsi is used to taking long, brisk walks. So he worried in 2021 when he started feeling so tired...

neural networks and AI graphic
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.10.2024

In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his...