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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...

A mosquito on skin
By Rachel Franzin, The Hill | 06.15.2020

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing a lawsuit over its approval of a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes...

By Oksana Grytsenko, The Guardian | 06.15.2020

Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies. These newborns are not in the...

By Wendy Guzman, The State News | 06.15.2020

The Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for MSU to...

By Emily Mullin, OneZero | 06.15.2020

A team of scientists has used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to create genetically modified human embryos in a London lab...

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912
By C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American | 06.12.2020

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912 (via wikipedia)

Amidst protests and conversations on racism following...

Photo of Franz J. Kallman
By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 06.12.2020

We may be in the midst of a critical historical turning point in social justice. The confluence of the Black...

Rufus von KleinSmid
By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...