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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...

graphic of a DNA strand and its base pairings.
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 10.30.2025

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies...

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By B.A. Parker & Gene Demby, NPR | 10.29.2025

What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want...

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By Jing-han Chen, Global Taiwan Institute | 10.29.2025

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Introduction: Surrogacy Debates in

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By Bridget Rollason, ABC News | 10.25.2025

Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins.

At the...

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By Nahlah Ayed, CBC Listen | 10.22.2025

Egg freezing is one of today’s fastest-growing reproductive technologies. It's seen as a kind of 'fertility insurance' for the future...

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By Ben Foldy, The Wall Street Journal | 10.21.2025

AnnaMaria Gallozzi and her husband wanted to have a second child last year. Because Gallozzi has advanced breast cancer, the...

The world's leading transhumanists aren't the voices you need to listen to about "AI safety."
By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 10.17.2025

The Internet philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky has been predicting the end of the world for decades. In 1996, he confidently declared...