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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...

He Jiankui
By Ed Browne, Newsweek | 04.11.2022

Image of He Jiankui from Wikicommons

Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, who shocked the medical world by claiming he had used...

a baby laying on a ruler
By Kalina Kamenova & Hazar Haidar, Voices in Bioethics | 04.07.2022

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This article examines the bioethical discourse on polygenic embryo screening (PES) in reproductive medicine in blogs and news stories...

IVF
By Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post | 04.06.2022

After several unsuccessful attempts to conceive a baby through in vitro fertilization, a Massachusetts couple learned last year that they...

By Erik Stokstad, Science | 04.05.2022

For conservation biologists, the highest item on the global agenda this year is persuading the world’s nations to agree on...

He Jiankui
By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review | 04.04.2022

The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a...

Jennifer Doudna
By Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 04.04.2022

It’s been 10 years since Crispr pioneer Jennifer Doudna published the landmark paper that landed a Nobel Prize for her...

pregnant woman
By Danielle Braff, New York Times | 04.02.2022

Charlie Lee and his husband want to have a baby.

But they are facing a major hurdle: They have 12...

a bunch of colorful chromosomes
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 03.31.2022

Scientists are finally done mapping the human genome, more than two decades after the first draft was completed, researchers announced Thursday. About...