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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...

sad woman
By Heather Radke, TIME | 11.26.2022

The first dressing room I remember was at Hudson’s, a Detroit-based department store where middle-class people in my town went...

a bunch of sperm on a black background
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2022

Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His...

gattaca globe
By Dov Greenbaum and Mark Gerstein, Nature | 11.24.2022

It has been 25 years since the release of GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a credible...

virus
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 11.23.2022

A systematic sweep of viral genomes has revealed a trove of potential CRISPR-based genome-editing tools.

CRISPR–Cas systems are common in...

FDA sign outside of building
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 11.23.2022

David Bennett’s heart was failing. The 57-year-old handyman from Maryland had weeks to live and, because he had a history...

red blood cells
By Edward Helmore, The Guardian | 11.23.2022

US drug regulators have approved a one-off gene-therapy treatment for adults with the genetic blood disorder hemophilia B that frees...

two identical cats
By Craig Miller, Morningstar | 11.22.2022

It runs about $50,000 for a dog, with a 20% success rate, and there are numerous ethical considerations

This article...

colorful genes
By Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic | 11.20.2022

Thousands of miles from home in the steamy Amazon rainforest in the mid-1800s, the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates had...