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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...

photo of a street in Greece with Greek flags hung between two buildings
By Sarah Marsh, The Guardian | 09.01.2023

Photo by Yana Marudova on Unsplash

Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...

Canadian lawbooks
By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 08.30.2023

"'Canadian Criminal Law, Review' vols. 2-10"
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GM plant seedlings in test tubes
By Claire Robinson, GM Watch | 08.30.2023

Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...

Sketch of a robot face
By AFP, France24 | 08.28.2023

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...

a pink background with a green beaker and a dark green Petri dish with gametes in each
By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...

human skulls on a black background
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | 08.18.2023

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which...

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By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 08.18.2023

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids?  The press alert...

embryo graphic on blue background
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 08.17.2023

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on...