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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 Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian | 07.26.2023

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The Italian parliament has approved a bill criminalising people who go abroad to have...

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By Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie, The Conversation | 07.25.2023

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the ...

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By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.24.2023

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...

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By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis and Dmytro Drabyk , Politico [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.23.2023

KYIV, Ukraine  When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...

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By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | 07.20.2023

It’s really important for people to understand what this bundle of ideologies is, because it’s become so hugely influential, and...

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By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 07.20.2023

Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding high...

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By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech | 07.19.2023

For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal...

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By Rachel Lu, The Nation | 07.19.2023

"[formerly] Mead Memorial Chapel at Middlebury College, Vermont" by Niranjan Arminius is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

In October...