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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...

Hand holding stethoscope on colorful globe
By Peter Ward, The Guardian | 05.05.2022

Photo by Jernej Furman on Flickr

Every year millions of people cross borders to undergo medical treatments that are either...

gloved hands with a test tube of blood
By Daniel Navon, Scientific American | 05.05.2022

Imagine you are an expectant parent. Just a couple of months into your pregnancy, you opt for an easy genetic...

Virus
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.04.2022

The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that...

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women
By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...

cancer cells
By Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022

A tiny change in our DNA that occurred after we evolved away from other primates has made us more prone...

IVF photo
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 05.03.2022

Photo by Pritamprajapati9 via wikimedia

The fertility industry generates approximately US$8 billion in revenue annually and plays a role in...

pregnant Ukrainian woman
By Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.03.2022

Photo by Astaken on Flickr

On Feb. 24, in the early hours of a cold, dark morning in Lviv, two...

a science building with a model of the human brain and skull made of transparent plastic
By Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022

Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash

The work of creating science has been organized for centuries,” wrote Popular Science founder...