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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 Kudrat Wadhwa , The Verge | 06.14.2022

When Arianna Huhn experienced complications with her first pregnancy, she signed up for a clinical trial, one that required her...

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By Antony Starza-Allen, Progress Educational Trust | 06.13.2022

The question of what is a 'permitted embryo' under the legislation governing assisted reproduction in the UK has received...

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By Dan Samorodnitsky, The Daily Beast | 06.12.2022

On May 14, a gunman walked into a Tops grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York...

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By Jay Reeves, The Associated Press | 06.11.2022

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For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds...

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By Kit Wilson, The Critic | 06.10.2022

We’re entering an era of almost unfathomable, radical technological change. Elon Musk is getting monkeys to play Pong with just...

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By Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ Magazine | 06.08.2022

“Where is the we?” It’s the question that was the driving force for Vida Delrahim and Ronit Menashe when...

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By Ray Levy-Uyeda, Truthout | 06.08.2022

In the mid-2000s, Moonlight Pulido experienced a bout of hot flashes, emotional ups-and-downs, and other symptoms of menopause that confused...

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By Melissa Nobles , Chad Womack , Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti, Nature | 06.08.2022

Science is a human endeavour that is fuelled by curiosity and a drive to better understand and shape our natural...