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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 Emily Glazer, Katherine Long, Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2025

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.07.2025

This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually...

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By Adam Feuerstein, Stat | 11.06.2025

The Food and Drug Administration was more than likely correct to reject Biohaven Pharmaceuticals’ treatment for spinocerebellar ataxia, a rare and debilitating...

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By Lucy Tu, The Guardian | 11.05.2025

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her...

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By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 11.03.2025

Recently, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from stem cell clinics, which challenged the Food and Drug...

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By Lauran Neergaard, AP News | 11.03.2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really...

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By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.31.2025

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.31.2025

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely...