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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...

He Jiankui at his panel in 2018
By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.12.2023

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world by creating the first children with edited genomes, says research must...

a white dna strand over a red medical cross
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 02.05.2023

The multimillion-dollar costs of gene therapies -- the type that the state of California is helping to finance -- received...

he jiankui in a light blue button up standing in front of a lab. The background is blurred
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 02.04.2023

The scientist at the heart of the scandal involving the world’s first gene-edited babies has said he moved “too quickly”...

a scientist performing gene editing
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 01.30.2023

Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first...

an old poster that says "stop forced sterilization"
By Julie Zigoris, The San Francisco Standard | 01.26.2023

It’s easy to think of eugenics as something that happened far away from us, with ideals alien to our character...

a collage that shows various assisted reproductive technologies. It is composed of various cartoon images surrounding fertility that is white, blue, and pink. This is on a teal background.
By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 01.25.2023

On January 23, Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), Julia Letlow (R-La.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) introduced the Protecting...

an autism ribbon
By Brady Huggett, Spectrum News | 01.25.2023

In April of 2021, Emilie Wigdor finished up a paper titled “The female protective effect against autism spectrum disorder” and...