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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...

sperm donor graphic
By Dorian Accoe, BioNews | 09.15.2025

Many fertility clinics and gamete banks exclude candidate donors who are neurodivergent or have a family history of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence...

IVF
By Georgia Brice, BioNews | 09.15.2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends three NHS-funded IVF cycles for those eligible under 40...

graphic of eye staring at future technology
By Aaron Ginn, The Washington Post | 09.12.2025

Earlier this year, I had dinner in D.C. with Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. At...

a graphic of the earth consumed by fire
By Kevin Roose, The New York Times | 09.12.2025

The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percent chance that A.I. was going to...

visualization of AI computer servers
By Alondra Nelson, Science | 09.11.2025

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the...

DNA storage in black and white
By Natalie Ram, Anya E. R. Prince, Jessica L. Roberts, Dov Fox, and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Science | 09.11.2025

After declaring bankruptcy in March 2025, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company 23andMe sold the data of more than 15 million...

the White House
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping...

gene therapy and dollar sign graphic
By Dennis Sponer, BioSpace | 09.03.2025

Imagine telling a child with sickle cell disease that a cure exists—but it’s too expensive for their insurer to cover...