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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...

body and DNA graphic
By Neil C. Hughes, Cybernews | 06.10.2023

Elon Musk's Neuralink recently gained the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval for studying human brain implants. But is...

chestnut tree
By Boyce Upholt, MIT Technology Review | 06.08.2023

Fifty-three million years ago, the Earth was much warmer than it is today. Even the Arctic Ocean was a balmy...

He Jiankui at the 2018 panel where he revealed the news.
By John Ruwitch, NPR | 06.08.2023

BEIJING — In a mostly empty coworking office on the outskirts of China's capital, a scientist whose name is etched...

three clear beakers in black and white
By Staff, Alliance for Humane Biotechnology | 06.07.2023

Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

INTRODUCTION

Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of...

A person in a crowd at a black lives matter protest holding up a sign that says "black women's lives matter"
By Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein, NPR | 06.06.2023

Doctors, data scientists and hospital executives believe artificial intelligence may help solve what until now have been intractable problems. AI...

A bunch of DNA strands colored purple on a black background
By Sinead Prince, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog | 06.06.2023

We’ve been discussing the possibility of genetic enhancement, and the ethics of such technology, for some time now. Many people...

the arm of a child with two small bandaids on it
By David Cox, BBC | 06.04.2023

In early 2017, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital called Timothy Yu began work on the most ambitious project of...

stem cells dyed yellow on a green background
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 06.04.2023

The headline on the cover of the San Francisco Business Times told it all.

“Running on Empty: What do you...