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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 Philip Ball, Nature | 06.16.2023

Two teams of scientists have announced that they have grown embryo-like structures, made entirely from human stem cells, that are...

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By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 06.15.2023

TESCREAL—pronounced “tess-cree-all.” It’s a strange word that you may have seen pop up over the past few months. The renowned...

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By Anna Clark, ProPublica | 06.14.2023

After decades of intense debate and stalled legislation, the Food and Drug Administration has taken a critical step in overseeing...

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By Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian | 06.14.2023

The EU has taken a major step towards passing one of the world’s first laws governing artificial intelligence after its...

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By Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum | 06.14.2023

During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 06.14.2023

Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or...

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By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2023

Après une période assez défensive dans le secteur de la tech, des dirigeants comme Sam Altman, le père de ChatGPT...

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By Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine | 06.13.2023

In April, researchers in China reported that they had initiated pregnancies in monkeys through a procedure seemingly much like in...