News

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 protest against forced sterilization
By Dennis Ward, Face to Face | 04.07.2020

More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa...

By Libby Dowsett, The Oregonian/OregonLive | 04.05.2020

First-time gestational surrogate Shandi Phelps realized her life was about to take a bizarre turn when President Donald Trump announced...

By Orlando Crowcroft & Marta Rodriguez Martinez, Euronews | 04.04.2020

This is not the way that Briton Nadene Ghouri had planned to spend the first six weeks of motherhood.

Holed...

Woman lying in hospital bed
By Alice Wong, Vox | 04.04.2020

It is a strange time to be alive as an Asian American disabled person who uses a ventilator. The coronavirus...

Californians for Cures logo
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.03.2020

The campaign to save California's stem cell research program from financial extinction is making an "unprecedented," electronic sprint to gather...

Person in a wheelchair
By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic | 04.03.2020

Many Americans are anxious about contracting the novel coronavirus. Daniel Florio is absolutely terrified.

The 50-year-old lawyer from Maplewood, New...

By Matt Tracy, Gay City News | 04.02.2020

A protracted battle over the future of compensated gestational surrogacy in New York was resolved on April 2 when state...

By Katie Thomas, New York Times | 04.02.2020

An experimental stem cell therapy derived from human placentas will begin early testing in patients with the coronavirus, a New...