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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 colorized image of sperm
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 05.12.2020

Genes from the virus that causes COVID-19 have been found in the semen of men who had the disease, according...

A white doctor injecting a black research subject at Tuskegee
By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker | 05.07.2020

Evelynn Hammonds, who chairs Harvard’s department of the history of science, has spent her career studying the intersection of race...

Unemployed workers in line
By Aaron Ross Coleman, Vox | 05.06.2020

Black Americans experience recessions the way front-seat passengers do head-on collisions. During the Great Depression, when national unemployment reached 24...

Logo of the petition drive campaign
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.05.2020

Backers of a $5.5 billion ballot initiative to save the California stem cell research program from financial extinction said today...

An African-American man
By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic | 05.04.2020

Ethel Freeman became famous in death, even though no one knew her name. For months, she was one of the...

Earth, half in darkness
By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams | 05.04.2020

President Donald Trump's brand of "America First" isolationism was on full display Monday as the U.S. declined to participate in...

By Dan Vergano and Kadia Goba, Buzzfeed | 05.04.2020

WASHINGTON — Outside the grocery store in Congress Heights, people are playing dominoes in the parking lot, close together without...

By Natalie Lampert, New York Times | 05.01.2020

Since March, fertility clinics across the country have halted treatments for tens of thousands of people because of Covid-19, forcing...