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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 Alexandra Marquez, NBC News | 03.13.2026

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed “the...

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By Carolyn Riley Chapman and Nirvan Bhatia, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 03.12.2026

Last year, researchers saved an infant named KJ from a life-threatening rare metabolic disorder using a customized gene editing therapy...

gene editing
By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 03.11.2026

 

new method for safely inserting large chunks of DNA into genomes has now measured up in mice, potentially...

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By Jason Liebowitz, The New Yorker | 03.06.2026

When Talaya Reid was in high school, in a quiet suburb of Philadelphia, she developed fatigue so severe that she...

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By Antonia O'Flaherty, ABC News Australia | 03.04.2026

Fertility giant Monash IVF has agreed to pay financial settlements to families involved in two major bungles that saw two...

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By Rowan Walrath and Laurel Oldach, Chemical & Engineering News | 03.04.2026

Washington, DC—At a press conference held at the US Department of Health and Human Services headquarters on Feb. 23...

Synthetic embryos
By Paul Knoepfler, Stat | 03.03.2026

Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of the newest...

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By Dr. Marcin Śmietana, Progress Educational Trust (PET) | 03.02.2026

When a family created through surrogacy abroad returns to their home country after the birth of the child, the genetic...