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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 Zarya Shaikh, Queer Diagnosis | 09.01.2022

In our first episode of Season 3, Connor McAlister (he/they) contemplates the impact of emerging technologies, including CRISPR, on disabled...

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By Joseph Berger, The New York Times | 09.01.2022

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Museum by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash

A new documentary about the Holocaust opens...

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By Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 08.31.2022

Recently the Genetic Literacy Project has been heavily targeting critics of the herbicide Roundup, now owned by Bayer, with a...

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By Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post | 08.30.2022

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kyra LoPiccolo crouched in front of a small, white foam...

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By Corin Faife, The Verge | 08.29.2022

New Jersey police may have used blood samples taken from babies to investigate crimes, according to public defenders in the...

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By Marian Jones, The Guardian | 08.28.2022

For many women of color, the right to control one’s reproductive destiny has always been about much more than the...

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By Staff, Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V. | 08.26.2022

The past experiences of Indigenious communitys with participating in genetic research have been predominatly negative. Therefore, Native American scientists like...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 08.26.2022

Human genome editing and lab-grown eggs that could theoretically allow same-sex couples to have biological children are among the anticipated...