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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 Josephine Johnston, Françoise Baylis & Henry T. Greely, Nature | 06.22.2021

We are researchers with differing views on the ethics of stem-cell and embryo research who nonetheless share deep concerns about...

By Science and Technology Committee, UK Parliament | 06.22.2021

The popularity of genomics tests sold directly to consumers has increased in recent years, with products focusing on ancestry, health...

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By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.21.2021

They could be called the “UC Caucus,” although that may presume too much. Nonetheless, they come from an institution that...

By Nicola Jones, Nature | 06.18.2021

From cat memes and music tracks to all manner of digital art, the bizarre, often quirky market for non-fungible tokens...

By Amelia Hill, The Guardian | 06.17.2021

Immortality and everlasting youth are the stuff of myths, according to new research which may finally end the eternal debate...

ICSSR guidelines
By Françoise Baylis, Nature | 06.15.2021

I note troubling inconsistencies in the revised guidelines for stem-cell research and clinical translation, issued in May by the International...

police searching database
By Quirin Schiermeier, Nature | 06.15.2021

In May 1999, a disturbing crime shocked the inhabitants of Kollum, a small village in the Netherlands. A local 16-year-old...

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By Erik Malmqvist, Bioethics | 06.14.2021

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The birth of the world’s first genetically edited babies in 2018 provoked considerable ethical outrage. Nonetheless, many scientists and...