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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...

Home DNA kit
By Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch | 12.29.2020

DNA testing technology company 23andMe  has raised just shy of $82.5 million in new funding, from an offering of...

A crowd under surveillance
By Davide Castelvecchi, Nature | 12.23.2020

After a year of heavy scrutiny and seemingly endless controversy around artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies, the field’s most prestigious conference has...

Cancer cells
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.22.2020

It’s troubling news that gene therapy researchers have long anticipated: A hemophilia patient injected with a virus carrying a therapeutic...

crispr dna
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.15.2020

The last thing a lot of people want to do these days is get on a plane. But even a...

Voter ballot
By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 12.14.2020

The recent close-call US presidential election grabbed headlines, but no less closely-fought was California's Proposition 14, also on the ballot in...

By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 12.13.2020

Amid a raging global pandemic, the field of gene editing made major strides in 2020. For years, scientists have been...

BGI logo
By Eben Kirksey, Financial Review | 12.11.2020

Simply Google “BGI NIFTY” and you will find a slick website from China’s premier genomics company offering new...

DNA
By Luke Shors, Neo.Life | 12.10.2020

Fifty years before we solved it, long before its information began filling scientific headlines and pharmaceutical shelves, and even before...