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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...

A human embryo
By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.26.2021

For decades, scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than 14 days. The...

test tubes in rack
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.26.2021

New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human...

a black and white cow staring straight ahead
By Matt Reynolds, Wired UK | 05.25.2021

Laura Domigan is a chronicler of cows. Every biographical detail and pharmacological footnote could be crucial, so the biochemist has...

By Stuart A. Newman and M.L. Tina Stevens, The New York Review | 05.23.2021
In response to: Editing Humanity’s Future from the April 29, 2021 issue

In her recent review of four books on...

hospital bed
By Gina Kolata and Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times | 05.23.2021

It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday when Dana Jones heard an ominous sound, barely audible over the whirring of...

conference room
By Nicholas Weller, Michelle Sullivan Govani, Mahmud Farooque, Issues in Science and Technology | 05.19.2021

In a ballroom at the Arizona Science Center one afternoon in 2017, more than 70 Phoenix residents—students, teachers, nurses, and...