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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...

Los Angeles police
By Sam Levin, The Guardian | 09.08.2021

The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they...

By Priyanka A. Chokhani, The Times of India | 09.02.2021

NEW DELHI: When the pandemic shut down their auto-parts supply business in Maharashtra last year, Sheetal pawned her gold jewellery...

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.02.2021

India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the...

Kazuto Kato
By Gary Humphreys, Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 09.01.2021

Photo from Kazuto Kato’s biography at
University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law

Gary Humphreys talks to Kazuto Kato about the...

Cover of The Code Breaker
By Jag Bhalla, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.01.2021

To say that scientists now understand life’s “code” is a stretch. So, from the very title of Walter Isaacson’s latest...

crispr editing dna
By Ashleen Knutsen, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 09.01.2021

Therapeutic applications of genome editing were envisioned at least as early as the mid-1990s, when the first sequence-specific genome editing...

By Kendall Powell, Nature | 08.31.2021

It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an agonizing task ahead...

By Kevin Doxzen, The Conversation | 08.31.2021

Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay...