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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...

Vaccine syringe
By Caroline Seydel , Forbes | 12.02.2020

While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been...

Eugenics signage
By Knute Berger, Crosscut | 12.01.2020

Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...

By Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, Walter Johnson, Slate | 12.01.2020

On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies...

Cradles and a globe
By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...

By Guido Pennings, BioNews | 11.30.2020

There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...

Torii Gate, Japan
By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

Photo by Tianshu Liu on Unsplash

OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

Great Seal of the Navajo Nation
By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

Image by Bassoonstuff (Bobby C. Hawkins),
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear and icy morning in...

Violent protest
By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...