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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 Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 12.06.2025

Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions...

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By staff, Japan Times | 12.04.2025

Japan plans to introduce a ban with penalties on implanting a genome-edited fertilized human egg into the womb of a...

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By Vardit Ravitsky, The Hastings Center | 12.04.2025

Embryo testing is advancing fast—but how far is too far? How and where do we draw the line between preventing...

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By Courtney Withers and Daryna Zadvirna, ABC News | 12.03.2025

Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy...

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By Frankie Fattorini, Pharmaceutical Technology | 12.02.2025

Próspera, a charter city on Roatán island in Honduras, hosts two biotechs working to combat ageing through gene therapy, as...

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By Grace Won, KQED Forum [with CGS' Katie Hasson] | 12.02.2025

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

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By Jenny Lange, BioNews | 12.01.2025

A UK toddler with a rare genetic condition was the first person to receive a new gene therapy that appears...

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By Mario Aguilar, Stat | 12.01.2025

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced plans to offer its employees a broader set of artificial intelligence tools...