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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva samples as well as blood," says Schleede, a geneticist who runs Herasight Inc.'s lab in Morrisville, N.C. "We also...

This is the 15th 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. You can read the first part here. The series...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...

IVF graphic on purple background
By Jennifer Takhar, Carolyn Wilson-Nash, and Chloe He, BioNews | 06.22.2026

Imagine wanting to have a child and discovering, at every stage, that the system was not designed with you in...

DNA on colorful background
By Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine | 06.18.2026

Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of...

DNA on a green background
By Philip Ball , Nature | 06.17.2026

Our genomes are full of mutations that have the potential to damage our health or even kill us. Yet most...

Plant seedling growing in soil
By Arche Noah, GMWatch | 06.17.2026

The European Parliament has voted for a wide-reaching deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). There was no majority for amendments...

Seal of the US Department of Eduction
By Julia Métraux, MOJO WIRE | 06.16.2026

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Educationdisability education...

DNA on dark background
By Elyse Betters Picaro , ZDNET | 06.13.2026

The kit arrives. It isn't big.

You get it out of the mailbox and bring it to your counter. It's...

Varied biotech graphics on a green background
By Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker, Stat | 06.11.2026

WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year...

Graphic of embryo at early stage
By Max Barnhart, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.09.2026

On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released...