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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...

Female scientist in black and white
By Henry T. Greely, STAT | 10.17.2020

In the course of just under two months that started 40 years ago this week, five events occurred that shaped...

Trump on graphic
By Adam Cohen, LA Times | 10.14.2020

Politicians often flatter their audiences, but at a rally in Bemidji, Minn., last month, President Trump found an unusual thing...

Jennifer Doudna
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 10.13.2020

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 7 that she had won the 2020 Nobel Prize in...

Face scan
By Aloysius Low, NBC News | 10.12.2020

SINGAPORE — Singapore already boasts one of the world's most advanced national digital identity programs, SingPass, which residents can use...

Covid vaccine
By Nicholas St. Fleur, Stat | 10.12.2020

The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in...

Vaccination
By Kristen V Brown , Bloomberg | 10.10.2020

Josiah Zayner’s plan was simple: replicate a Covid-19 vaccine that had worked in monkeys, test it on himself and then livestream the...

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 10.09.2020

It would dedicate $1.5 billion of its total to research and therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, epilepsy and...

Youth behind bars
By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 10.09.2020

In a national database in Argentina, tens of thousands of entries detail the names, birthdays, and national IDs of people...