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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...

Black mother holding a newborn baby
By Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 02.18.2022

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Penelope Marshall McCown struggled for years to have a baby.

She and...

Earth wearing a face mask
By Gregg Gonsalves, The New York Times | 02.17.2022

The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America...

Blue surgical face mask
By Dipti S. Barot, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.16.2022

Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash

As the omicron surge wanes, and the experts read the sewage like tea leaves...

HIV particles (yellow) infecting host cell (blue)
By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times | 02.15.2022

Scanning electromicrograph of an
HIV-infected T cell. NIAID via wikimedia

A woman of mixed race appears to be the third...

Three disabled BIPOC strolling down a street
By Megan Buckles and Mia Ives-Rublee, Center for American Progress | 02.15.2022

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Studies show that people with disabilities are more likely than people without...

A "bubble baby" cured by this treatment
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 02.15.2022

Photo: CIRM

Twenty children seeking treatment for a rare affliction called the “bubble baby disease” today have some big-time, good...

Drawing of a heart
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 02.15.2022

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

The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept...

SFPD at street demo
By Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.14.2022

Photo of SFPD by Steve Rhodes (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Update: D.A. Chesa Boudin has dismissed the case against...