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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 testing
By Caitlin Harrington, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.02.2020

WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...

2020 elections
By Guardian Editorial, San Francisco Bay Guardian [cites CGS] | 10.01.2020

We were for Bernie. We think he would have won in 2016 and would win this year.

But it’s not...

Pig
By Amanda Heidt, TheScientist | 10.01.2020

Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and...

Empty hospital bed
By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.30.2020

The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.

Mr Brown, who was also...

Female immigrant with child
By Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler and Miriam Jordan, New York Times | 09.29.2020

Wendy Dowe was startled awake early one morning in January 2019, when guards called her out of her cellblock in...

Deaf person
By Emily Mullin, Medium | 09.29.2020

When Jessica Chaikof was born in February 1995, doctors at an Atlanta hospital placed a pair of headphones on her...

Public opinion graphic
By Christopher D. Wirz, Environmental Communication | 09.29.2020

Gene editing is an inherently wicked problem

Societal debates about the applications of novel gene editing techniques like CRISPR in...

Woman behind bars
By Alan Judd, AJC | 09.26.2020

Women detained in a South Georgia immigration jail told a congressional delegation Saturday they had been forced to undergo invasive...