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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 Amy Feldman, Forbes | 02.17.2026

"Jennifer Doudna" by Duncan Hull for the Royal Society via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0

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By Vittoria Vardanega, SWI swissinfo.ch | 02.13.2026

In recent years, sperm donation has produced family trees of unprecedented size, stretching across countries and, in some cases, continents...

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By Scott Solomon, The MIT Press Reader | 02.12.2026

Chris Mason is a man in a hurry.

“Sometimes walking from the subway to the lab takes too long...

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By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 02.10.2026

Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.10.2026

Touchy issues involving accusations that California’s $12 billion gene and stem cell research agency is pushing aside “good science” in...

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By Emese Ilyés, Common Dreams | 02.10.2026

When Bad Bunny took the Super Bowl halftime stage, he performed one of the most beautiful examples of refusal I...

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By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

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By Jonathan D. Moreno, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 02.09.2026

When I began to write a book about bioethics and the rules-based international order, the idea that the world was...