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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 ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership , The American Society for Reproductive Medicine | 06.29.2022

Today, the ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership (CPL) released a new report entitled State Abortion Trigger Laws: Potential Implications...

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By Nicolas Gutierrez C., The New Scientist | 06.29.2022

MORE than a billion people live in China, but researchers in the country have proposed the creation of a healthcare...

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By Sonia M. Suter, Slate | 06.29.2022

Much of the focus on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has rightly been directed at the...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 06.29.2022

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Author’s note: the Olsen and Rooks opinions use the term “pre-embryo.”...

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By George Maliha, Ravi B. Parikh , Scientific American | 06.29.2022

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Who is responsible when AI harms someone?

A California jury may soon have to...

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By Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros , The MIT Technology Review | 06.28.2022

In the hours and days after the US Supreme Court announced its ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, tech...

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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 06.28.2022

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It had been barely 80 minutes since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned ...

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By Gillian Rutherford, The University of Alberta | 06.27.2022

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Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will gather...