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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 Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 07.06.2020

Transhumanists are no strangers to controversy. How could they be when Jeffrey Epstein numbered himself among their longstanding adherents and...

Police in China
By Editorial Board, Washington Post | 07.06.2020

WHAT HAS been known until now about China’s persecution of the Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang province has focused...

DNA testing
By Peter Aldhous, Buzzfeed News | 07.05.2020

Yuliana Ramírez learned she was pregnant in December 2016, about a month after splitting up from her boyfriend, Luis Diego...

Mosquito
By Natasha Foote, EURACTIV.com | 07.03.2020

After over 78 environmental and agricultural organisations signed a letter this week calling for a moratorium on gene drive technology...

By Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, The BMJ Opinion Blog | 07.03.2020

As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political...

By Eli Cahan, Science | 07.02.2020

The former Watson School of Biological Sciences has changed its name.

For Earyn McGee, terminology matters.

McGee, a herpetologist, studies...

A Black mother and babies
By Rhea W. Boyd, Edwin G. Lindo, Lachelle D. Weeks, Monica R. McLemore, Health Affairs Blog | 07.02.2020

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the
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By Shilpa Jindia, The Guardian | 06.30.2020

A new documentary film is shedding light on forced sterilizations in California, reviving a dark chapter in the state’s history...