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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 Lisa C. Ikemoto, Los Angeles Times | 07.07.2022

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six...

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By Jan Hoffman, The New York Times | 07.05.2022

Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is reasonably certain that she and her husband are...

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By Anja Herrman, Teen Vogue | 07.05.2022

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While my generation has, up until now, always had the right to a legal ...

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By Ian Sample , The Guardian | 07.05.2022

Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive...

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By Caroline A. B. Redhead, Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Leah Gilman, Lucy Frith, The Conversation | 07.04.2022

The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten...

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By Carissa Wong, New Scientist | 07.01.2022

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A new form of the genome-editing technique CRISPR could provide a more accurate way to...

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By Loretta J. Ross, CounterPunch | 07.01.2022

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The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the right to an abortion is an act of...

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By Ganes Kesari, Forbes | 06.30.2022

One in four couples in developing countries is impacted by infertility. About 48.5 million couples experience infertility worldwide. Today, infertility...