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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...

farmer holding crops
By Amy Maxmen, Nature | 04.28.2021

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On a hazy day in November, Hardeep Singh received a text message from the...

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By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 04.25.2021

BOSTON — Thomas Feldborg and Daria Rokina set off nearly every afternoon to explore this city. They leave from their hotel...

scissors and DNA
By Amanda Winkler, Freethink | 04.24.2021

The gene-editing system, CRISPR-Cas9, is truly revolutionizing medicine: in the future, it may help us eradicate ailments from sickle cell...

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By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2021

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known...

African girl getting vaccine
By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian | 04.23.2021

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A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in ...

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By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2021
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By Robert Norman and Ben W. Moi, The Conversation | 04.22.2021

An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in...

By Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive | 04.20.2021

When nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle on medical staff at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia last fall...