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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...

By Duana Fullwiley, Boston Review | 02.04.2021

Some of my ancestors might live just up the street. They are the people who own the black camper van...

By Casey Ross, STAT | 02.04.2021

The genetics testing company 23andMe will enter the public markets via a special purpose acquisition corporation sponsored by Virgin Group...

Football players in action
By Pete Madden, Cho Park, and Ryan Smith, ABCNews | 02.03.2021

The NFL insists that its concussion settlement program does not require the clinicians who evaluate former players for payouts to...

Book cover
By Becca Muir, Science for the People | 02.01.2021

Before Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman wrote Biotech Juggernaut, Newman helped Stevens fight legal action from an unexpectedly powerful...

By Zeynep Gurtin | 02.01.2021

More women in the UK than ever before are considering freezing their eggs, with the sharp rise in inquiries at...

Chinese military police
By Kristy Needham, Reuters | 01.30.2021

SYDNEY (Reuters) - BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from...

By Robert I. Field, Anthony W. Orlando, and Arnold J. Rosoff, Philadelphia Inquirer | 01.28.2021

At this very moment, someone, somewhere, might be exposing your intimate genetic data. They probably don’t realize they’re doing it...

DNA
By Søren Hough, SFTP | 01.28.2021

By 2018, it was clear that CRISPR had spun out of control. In the United States, one biotech company managed...