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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...

fertilizing an egg in vitro
By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux , The Washington Post | 05.11.2022

After numerous rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Genevieve Pearson Adair was excited to have 18 fertilized eggs. But it...

test tubes in a lab for sperm donation
By John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal | 05.10.2022

“Our Father,” Netflix.

A horror story presented as too much of a horror movie, “Our Father” features interviews with the...

colorado state capitol with both the american and colorado flag
By Bente Birkeland, CPR News | 05.10.2022

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

Starting in 2025, Colorado will no longer allow anonymous sperm and egg donations, under...

gavel and open book
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 05.10.2022

What will it mean for me if my state considers my embryo a "person"?

If my state considers an embryo...

a cartoon image showing how CRISPR works
By Michael Eisenstein , Nature | 05.09.2022

Two companies, Beam Therapeutics and Verve Therapeutics, are leading the charge of base editing therapies to the clinic. Last November...

he jiankui
By Samira Kiani, The Globe and Mail | 05.06.2022

photo by the He Lab

In October, 2018, I was invited to a secret meeting in Guangzhou, China. I was...

an anatomically correct heart
By Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 05.06.2022

Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator,
CC BY 2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons

Even after decades of drug breakthroughs aimed at...

police officer using a laptop
By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press | 05.06.2022

A New York court halted the use of a DNA crimefighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put...