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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...

a photo of a highway in California with a firetruck and a fire in the trees in the distance
By Michelle A. Williams, Stat | 02.02.2026

“Air pollution shortens lives.”

What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency...

test tube filled with eggs held by tweezers
By Diaa Hadid and Shweta Desai, NPR | 01.29.2026

MUMBRA, India — The afternoon sun shines on the woman in a commuter-town café, highlighting her almond-shaped eyes and pale...

gene strand
By Lauren Hammer Breslow and Vanessa Smith, Bill of Health | 01.28.2026

On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support...

Donald Trump delivering a speech
By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao, The New York Times | 01.26.2026

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States
of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Late last...

DNA wheel
By Mike McIntire, The New York Times | 01.24.2026

Genetic researchers were seeking children for an ambitious, federally funded project to track brain development — a study that they...

eugenics graphic
By Arthur Lazarus, MedPage Today | 01.23.2026

A growing body of contemporary research and reporting exposes how old ideas can find new life when repurposed within modern...

black and white photo of science equipment
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 01.22.2026

The National Institutes of Health said on Thursday it is ending support for all research that makes use of human...

DNA tree
By Shobita Parthasarathya, Science | 01.22.2026

These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the ...