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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...

a neuron
By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.08.2022

A group of 56 international scientists and policy experts have published a statement opposing the use of the term “precision...

Françoise Baylis
By Nahlah Ayed (interviewer), CBC Ideas | 09.06.2022

“Why is it that we think we can just take everything, everything, and modify it for ourselves?” asks Françoise...

a photo of a commemorative monument in Tulsa on Black Wall Street, site of the Tulsa Race Massacre
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 09.06.2022

Wesley Fryer on Flickr

On the night of May 31, 1921, a white mob descended on the affluent Black neighborhood...

a photo of Dorothy Roberts in front of a building with her arms crossed
By Irin Carmon, New York Magazine | 09.06.2022

One day in 2006, Dorothy Roberts went in for a conference with her youngest son’s teacher. The boy, said the...

A poster for transhumanism
By Rohitha Naraharisetty, The Swaddle | 09.05.2022

"transhuman" by new 1lluminati is licensed under CC BY 2.0

“It’s as if they want to build...

ivf
By Alisyn Camerota, CNN | 09.05.2022

Approximately one in every 50 kids born in the United States today is conceived in a fertility clinic or lab, ...

a vial that says DNA TEST on it is displayed in someone's hand
By Sophie Black, The Guardian | 09.04.2022

Mortality has always been on Perry Jones’ mind, much more so than your average 20-something. She’s dealt with a number...

a magnifying glass over a silhouette of a pregnant stomach showing a dna helix
By Jenny Logan, Mad in America | 09.02.2022

At least one private company has begun offering services to allow parents undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to screen embryos for...