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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...

two gloved hands hold a vaccine in a syringe
By Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times | 02.09.2026

Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet...

three babies one over another
By Ava Kofman, The New Yorker | 02.09.2026

1. The Surrogates

In the delicate jargon of the fertility industry, a woman who carries a child for someone else...

genetic selection graphic
By Alex Polyakov, The Conversation | 02.09.2026

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest...

a photo of Yale School of Medicine building
By Daniel Martinez HoSang, Marco Antonio Ramos, and Alana Slavin, Los Angeles Review of Books | 02.08.2026

"Yale School of Medicine" by Ajay Suresh
via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC by 2.0

This is the...

prescription pills on blue background
By John Wilkerson, J. Emory Parker, Chelsea Cirruzzo, Elaine Chen, and Daniel Payne, STAT | 02.06.2026

WASHINGTON — President Trump said his administration’s new TrumpRx website will offer the cheapest prices in the world for 43...

stop forced sterilization poster
By Leah Romero, SourceNM | 02.06.2026

An historical poster from 1977 created by Rachael Romero for the
Wilfred Owen Brigade in San Francisco, California. (Library of...

Native BioData Consortium logo
By Katrina Miller, The New York TImes | 02.05.2026

Joseph Yracheta: The Native Biodata Consortium is the first nonprofit data and sample repository within the geographic bounds and legal...

ivf graphic
By Pei-Chieh Hsu, Taiwan Insight | 02.02.2026

Across the globe, the reliance on assisted reproductive technology (ART) to reproduce is growing. In 2019, the International Committee for...