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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 Joyce E. Cutler and Tiffany Stecker, Bloomberg Government | 09.17.2020

California voters will be asked this November to spend big on stem cell research, an expensive proposition that could help...

By Francis Collins, NIH Director’s Blog | 09.17.2020

We stand at a critical juncture in the history of science. CRISPR and other innovative genome editing systems have given...

ICE officer
By Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic | 09.17.2020

Earlier this week, multiple human rights organizations filed a complaint on behalf of women detained at an Immigration and Customs...

Child vaccine
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.16.2020

In the 1950s, Albert Sabin was searching for an improved polio vaccine. To that end, his lab infected the brains...

Eugenics tree
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN | 09.16.2020

Natalia Molina was shocked when she heard a whistleblower's allegations about hysterectomies in ICE custody. But also, she wasn't...

Stem cells
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 09.15.2020

Over the last 15 years, California’s stem cell agency has spent $2.7 billion on research ranging from arthritis and blindness...

Voting ballot by mail
By Jeff Sheehy, San Diego Union-Tribune | 09.15.2020

It must seem odd that someone who has spent countless hours over the last 15 years as a member of...

CRISPR
By Katie Hasson and Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 09.13.2020

In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...