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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 Editors, The Lancet | 02.28.2026

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., by Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons

In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of...

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By Tania Fabo, Truthout | 02.28.2026

The reproductive tech company Orchid recently launched a genetic test that promises a whole genome sequencing report for embryos. It...

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By Michael Levenson, The New York Times | 02.27.2026

The pharmaceutical giant Novartis has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were...

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By Brittany Luse, Corey Antonio Rose, Neena Pathak, NPR | 02.27.2026

Who gets to be "hot" in America? And, at what cost?

Some young men are pushing beauty boundaries with guidance...

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By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 02.26.2026

It’s well known that Jeffrey Epstein was a super-wealthy pedophile with an extraordinary network of powerful friends: tech billionaires, politicians...

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By Jenn White, NPR | 02.26.2026

Millions of people struggle to become pregnant in the U.S. And in 2024, fertility rates reached a new low, according...

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By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 02.23.2026

The FDA is spelling out the details of a new pathway to help speed personalized cell and gene therapies to...

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By Ilyse Hogue, The Bulwark | 02.20.2026

Since I started working to understand the radicalization of young men, I’ve gotten asked the same question everywhere I go...