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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 Robin McKie, The Guardian | 02.03.2024

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every...

model of human brain
By Liam Drew, Nature | 02.02.2024

Neuralink, the company through which entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to revolutionize brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), has implanted a ‘brain-reading’ device into...

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By Amber Dance, Discover | 02.02.2024

Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make...

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By Daisy Dumas, The Guardian | 02.01.2024

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene...

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 01.31.2024

The rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between...

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By Greg Allen, NPR | 01.26.2024

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. 

At least 700,000 people...

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By Morenike Samuel, Sapiens | 01.25.2024

“DON’T PLAY WITH HER! SHE HAS SICKLE CELL”

On a sunny day in Southern Nigeria, my uncle and aunt took...

a photo of the BGI headquarters building with letters BGI in front of it
By Ken Dilanian, NBC News | 01.25.2024

"BGI Group HQ" by Scotted400 is licensed under CC by SA 4.0 

Bipartisan legislation was introduced in...