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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 Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

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For four decades, Chris Hansen worked as...

Group hugging
By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

"free 'group' hugs" by j3ssl33 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...

A Down's boy with dad
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.18.2020

Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash

Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...

Surveillance camera
By Antoaneta Roussi, Nature | 11.18.2020

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...

Constructive Birth Control Poster
By Rachel Moss, HuffPost | 11.17.2020

Constructive Birth Control Poster, from the Wellcome Library via Wikimedia CommonsCC BY 4.0

The UK’s largest abortion provider...