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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...

Donor egg
By Diane Tober, Salon | 02.15.2021

*Names have been changed to protect privacy.

Janine* was raised by a single mother in the San Francisco Bay Area. With...

Speeding ambulance
By James Tapper, The Guardian | 02.13.2021

People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite...

Human brain model
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.11.2021

In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that...

Human genome graphic
By Nature Staff, Nature | 02.10.2021

The first drafts of the human genome, published in Nature and Science 20 years ago, flung open the doors for...

Covid vaccine sticker
By Oliver C. Huang, Ms. | 02.10.2021

Since the COVID vaccine was first announced last year, the question of who should be prioritized to receive the vaccine...

Pregnant woman
By Caitlin Ashworth, The Thaiger | 02.07.2021

An alleged illegal transnational surrogacy ring, posed as a cleaning company, was busted by Thailand’s cybercrime police after surrogate mothers...

Human genome
By Kahryn Maxson Jones, et al., Science | 02.05.2021

Millions of people today have access to their personal genomic information. Direct-to-consumer services and integration with other “big data” increasingly...

Man in a wheelchair
By Elliot Kukla, New York Times | 02.04.2021

Photo by 张 学欢 on Unsplash

I am online with eight members of the family of my client, a nursing...