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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...

By Natalie Ram, Erin E. Murphy, and Sonia M. Suter, Science | 09.24.2021

In May 2021, Maryland enacted the first law in the United States—and in the world—that comprehensively regulates law enforcement’s use...

Science article on eugenics 1921
By Adam Rutherford, Science | 09.24.2021

A century ago this week, 300 scientists, policy-makers, and campaigners gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New...

Cover of "The Genetic Lottery" by Kathryn Page Harden
By Aaron Panofsky, Science | 09.24.2021

Behavior genetics, its forbear eugenics, and its cousins sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have always been political sciences. When not being...

photo of Elizabeth Holmes
By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business | 09.23.2021

Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch

A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the...

Arched gothic entrance to Royal Court of Justice in London
By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | 09.23.2021

A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion...

Lab grown meat in a petri dish
By Joe Fassler, The Counter | 09.22.2021

Paul Wood didn’t buy it.

For years, the former pharmaceutical industry executive watched from the sidelines as biotech startups raked...

a DNA helix on a dollar bill
By Kevin Doxzen and Diana M. Bowman, Slate | 09.22.2021

Over the past decade, our ability to alter the human genome has rapidly improved, largely due to advancements in genome...

A neon sign showing the outline of a brain within a head in profile
By Tana Wojczuk, Slate | 09.21.2021

In the final chapter of her 1995 memoir of manic-depression, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison posed a question...