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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...

double helix over world map
By Megan Molteni, STAT [cites CGS] | 07.12.2021

On Monday, a World Health Organization advisory committee called on the world’s largest public health authority to stand by the...

rainbow Israeli flag
By Claire Parker, Washington Post | 07.11.2021

Photo by Ted Eytan on Flickr

A decision by Israel’s supreme court Sunday paved the way for same-sex couples to...

DNA test tube
By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian | 07.10.2021

Your unborn baby is already being monetized

Could data harvested from millions of pregnant women pave the way for genetically...

FDA sign and building
By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Washington Monthly | 07.10.2021

Between 2010 and 2015, drug companies submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three different drugs...

California State Capitol Building
By Derek Hawkins, Washington Post | 07.09.2021

A brutal chapter in American history began in 1909 with the stroke of a doctor’s pen.

California’s eugenics law, enacted...

'black women's lives matter' on a sign during a protest
By Michele Goodwin, New York Times | 07.09.2021

Photo by Max Bender on Unsplash

During its coming term, the Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of a Mississippi...

The California state capitol building
By Adam Beam, AP | 07.07.2021

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of...

By Nico Lang, them. | 07.07.2021

Ohio will now allow medical providers to refuse treatment that violates their religious beliefs after conservatives snuck language into the...