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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...

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By Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic | 09.15.2021

Photo by Steve Nomax on Unsplash

Last week, prosecutors and defense attorneys made opening statements in the criminal trial of...

Facial recognition graphic
By Sammy Westfall, The Washington Post | 09.15.2021

The rapid evolution of artificial-intelligence-based technologies and their adoption by businesses and governments have outpaced efforts to hold them to...

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By Madeleine Carlisle, TIME | 09.14.2021

When Emma Goidel was denied coverage for her fertility treatments in September 2020, she was furious. A 31-year-old writer in...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.13.2021

A team of scientists and entrepreneurs announced on Monday that they have started a new company to genetically resurrect the...

DNA inside of a dollar bill
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 09.13.2021

The folks in Orange Cove in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley care about the cost of health care. It is...

Earth wearing a face mask
By Jay S. Kaufman, The New York Times | 09.10.2021

In the winter of 1848, a 26-year-old Prussian pathologist named Rudolf Virchow was sent to investigate a typhus epidemic raging...

Uyghur man
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.09.2021

Two respected scientific journals have retracted two articles that relied on the DNA samples of Uyghurs in western China after...

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By Emma Betuel, TechCrunch | 09.09.2021

The CRISPR-based biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences is officially a unicorn, the company says. 

The billion-dollar valuation comes on the back...