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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...

Francis Collins
By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 12.03.2021

This month, Francis Collins will step down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than...

DNA microarray
By Paul Rincon, BBC | 12.01.2021

DNA microarray image by Guillaume Paumier
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Scientists say...

By Sarah Martin, The Guardian | 12.01.2021

Members of parliament have voted to legalise controversial mitochondrial donation in the first conscience vote since same-sex marriage in 2017...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.01.2021

Robust regulations must be put in place to protect the welfare of farmed animals before genome-editing procedures are approved for...

Earth in a pair of hands
By Dan Samorodnitsky, Massive Science | 11.30.2021

If I placed before you an atom with one proton and one electron, you would be forced to admit it...

Cover of the book "The Genetic Lottery" by Kathryn Paige Harden
By Kevin Bird, Massive Science | 11.29.2021

The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations...

By Ben Spencer, The Times | 11.28.2021

IVF clinics selling ineffective “add-on” treatments face fines as part of the biggest shake-up of fertility laws in 30 years...

By Isabella Cueto, STAT | 11.26.2021

A common in vitro fertilization procedure offered to patients with the promise of increasing their likelihood of successful pregnancy actually does...