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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 Laura Ungar, Time | 01.25.2024

Photo by Lee Campbell on Unsplash

Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.

A small...

DNA strand on grey background
By Dyani Lewis, Nature | 01.24.2024

Yves Moreau thought something was amiss when he came across a genetics paper about Tibetans in China. In the 2022...

a photo of Penn Museum
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 01.23.2024

For nearly 2 centuries, the skulls of 20 Black people who died in Philadelphia have formed part of the Morton...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 01.23.2024

Photo by Alexey Ruban on UnSplash

Aissam Dam, an 11-year-old boy, grew up in a world of profound silence. He...

a uniformed police officer searches on laptop
By Dhruv Mehrorta, Wired | 01.22.2024

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 01.18.2024

Surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania announced today that they successfully attached a genetically altered pig liver to a brain-dead...

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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 01.18.2024

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting access to infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, amid growing concern...

Photo of Trump campaigning
By Paul Moses, CNN | 01.16.2024

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon 
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