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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 Anna Molas, The Conversation | 08.17.2023

Spain performs more than half of all egg donation treatments across Europe. The country is the largest provider of...

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By Arthur Caplan and Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 08.17.2023

The technology associated with assisted reproduction has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Planned oocyte and sperm freezing, posthumous...

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By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 08.16.2023

LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 12 story has been corrected to state that ICER's final analysis was...

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By Shefali Luthra, The 19th | 08.14.2023

Amber Bohlman tried almost everything to get pregnant. For five years, she took hormones that gave her headaches. Bohlman underwent...

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By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy, The Washington Post | 08.14.2023

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On the day Mary Sara died...

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By Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Scientific American | 08.12.2023

Wrongful arrests, an expanding surveillance dragnetdefamation and deep-fake pornography are all actually existing dangers of so-called...

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By Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times | 08.12.2023

In 1923, Princeton University Press published “A Study of American Intelligence” by Carl Campbell Brigham, a eugenicist and professor of...

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By Jessie Yeung, CNN | 08.12.2023

Better cancer treatments, advances in longevity, groundbreaking medicines and vaccines: these are just some of the potential prizes on offer...