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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...

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By Rebecca Simkin, BioNews | 06.29.2026

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing biotech company Regenxbio to reapply for licensing of a gene therapy...

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By Marisa Flook , BioNews | 06.29.2026

An anti-ageing gene therapy not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to be offered by...

gene wheel
By Samuelle Fajutrao Falk , The Conversation | 06.26.2026

When my colleagues and I asked autistic people and parents of autistic children in Sweden how they feel about genetic...

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By Paul Knoepfler, Stat | 06.24.2026

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to...

baby being checked with a stethoscope
By Daniela J. Lamas, The New York Times | 06.22.2026

In the first hours after my daughter was born, three years ago now, I searched her for answers. I examined...

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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...

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By Georgia Michelman, Science | 06.18.2026

In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Louisville (UofL), was starting a...