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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...

a stop abortion now sign
By Erika Rodriguez, Minnesota Women's Press | 05.24.2023

In a footnote to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, Samuel Alito referenced an...

a list of DNA code on a blue background
By Jennie Erin Smith, The New York Times | 05.23.2023

José Echeverría spends restless days in a metal chair reinforced with boards and padded with a piece of foam that...

A teal colored photo of IVF taking place
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post | 05.22.2023

Israel's Health Ministry wants to transfer responsibility for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) from private hospitals, which have several times been negligent...

pregnant woman
By Max G. Levy, Wired | 05.22.2023

IN A FUTURE when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier...

ivf fertility clinic
By Helen Pidd, The Guardian | 05.21.2023

England’s first not-for-profit fertility clinic has shut within a year of opening and has been sold to a private provider...

a light blue circle with 3 white icons. The bottom left has a test tube, the middle has a strand of DNA and the upper right has 5 people icons
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.19.2023

Antonio Vento is 13 years old. He’s a tiny figure in bandages who doesn’t walk and, until recently, couldn’t see...

several light blue strands of DNA floating over a dark blue background
By Robert F. Service, Science | 05.11.2023

Biologists who have been obtaining DNA sequences online from companies will soon have a more convenient option: benchtop machines that...

a genome of all the races
By Elie Dolgin, The New York Times | 05.10.2023

More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has...