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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...

DNA in magnifying glass
By Grace Tobin and Kirsten Robb, ABC News Australia | 09.01.2025

A secret audit of a major fertility clinic revealed that almost all of its donor sperm being provided to patients...

ivf
By Grace Tobin and Kirsten Robb, ABC News Australia | 08.31.2025

A biracial baby was born to a white couple in Brisbane in an IVF mix-up that Australia's biggest fertility company...

Greenland
By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian | 08.27.2025

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has apologised for the first time for the forced contraception scandal in which thousands of...

image of human lungs
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 08.25.2025

Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans. In recent years, those efforts have begun...

IVF graphic
By Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 08.23.2025

For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”.

After two years of trying to conceive, Erica...

gene editing graphic
By Vuyile Madwantsi, Independent Online | 08.22.2025

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

IVF
By Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times | 08.21.2025

Less than two weeks after an Alabama Supreme Court decision upended in vitro fertilization in the state and prompted a...

photo of the Collins family
By Holly Baxter, The Independent | 08.19.2025

In rural Pennsylvania, I’m hiking through the forest with Simone and Malcom Collins and discussing the executive order they wrote...