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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 child saved by the treatment discussed
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 07.27.2022

A child saved by the therapy; photo by CIRM

“Jakob is 2 years old. He has a deadly disease. But...

Image of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment venipuncture
By Allen G. Breed, Associated Press | 07.25.2022

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center when an...

Image of CRISPR DNA
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , The Jerusalem Post | 07.24.2022

Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) warn that while the CRISPR genome-editing method is very effective, it is not always...

Image of a hospital hallway
By Meena Venkataramanan, The Washington Post | 07.24.2022

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she says she was raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C. Nine months...

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By Aaron Schaffer, The Washington Post | 07.21.2022

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It’s not just schools, local governments and major private-sector firms like Colonial Pipeline getting...

Image of an operating room
By Marius Turda, Ethnic and Racial Studies | 07.20.2022

After 1900, eugenics became an influential scientific theory used by physicians, health experts, religious leaders and politicians across the political...

Image of test tubes in a spermbank
By Ethan Bronner and Chen Shalita, Bloomberg | 07.19.2022

The Memorial Day gathering in Kiryat Shmona, like countless others across Israel in early May, begins in the morning at...

Image of a ultrasound machine
By Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th | 07.18.2022

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For most of her career, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Stephanie Gustin and doctors like her...