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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...

synthetic embryos
By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, Bill of Health | 10.13.2023

A synthetic embryo can now be constructed from very early pre-embryonic cells – without the need for an egg or...

a needle and a tube
By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times | 10.11.2023
Respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., is a nasty bug. It’s the leading cause of hospitalizations among American infants and results...
flag of California
By Sam Levin and Maanvi Singh, The Guardian | 10.10.2023

California has become the first state to ban the use of “excited delirium” as a cause of death, prohibiting the...

23andme test package
By Kevin Collier, NBC News | 10.07.2023

Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic...

a crumpled $100 bill on someone's hand
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.06.2023

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It was one of gene therapy’s greatest successes — and greatest disappointments.

Strimvelis is a potent treatment...

 stethoscope in black and white
By Carmen Drahl, NPR | 10.06.2023

It seemed like a pretty straightforward exercise.

Arsenii Alenichev typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering...

image of uterus, syringes, and other hospital related things
By Isabella Kwai, The New York Times | 10.03.2023
Dozens of Indigenous women and girls from Greenland have said that they had intrauterine devices inserted without their consent in...
a DNA test
By Christina Jewett, The New York Times | 09.29.2023
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it was moving to close what has widely been viewed as...