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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 Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge | 03.21.2026

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the...

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By O. Rose Broderick, Stat | 03.18.2026

The Trump administration has zeroed in on its next target: ending health care fraud.

President Trump announced Monday the creation...

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By Garrett Owen, Salon | 03.18.2026

Key parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine overhaul were blocked on...

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By Laura DeFrancesco, Nature Biotechnology | 03.17.2026

The first gene editors designed to fix genetic lesions in mutation-agnostic ways are poised to enter the clinic. Tessera Therapeutics...

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By Judd Boaz and Elise Kinsella, ABC News | 03.17.2026

Fertility experts warn further life-changing historical errors could be discovered in Australia's IVF industry, as DNA testing becomes more widespread...

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By Paula Siverino Bavio, BioNews | 03.16.2026

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A recent surrogacy case in Peru had...

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By Margaret R. Eby, Los Angeles Review of Books | 03.15.2026

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By Ritsuko Kawai, Wired | 03.14.2026

On March 6, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare officially granted conditional and time-limited marketing authorization to two regenerative medical...