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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...

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
By Staff, GMWatch | 08.10.2025

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
by William Murphy, CC2.0

GMWatch has published a series of interviews with the late scientist Dr...

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By Aria Bendix, NBC News | 08.08.2025

President Donald Trump has nicknamed himself “the fertilization president,” but six months after he formally pledged to expand...

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By Gregory Laub and Hannah Glaser, MedPage Today | 08.07.2025

In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California...

Drawing of mitochondrial DNA
By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Sydney Sweeney at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
By Tania Fabo, Newsweek | 08.06.2025

"Sydney Sweeney" by Jay Dixit, CC 4.0

American Eagle came under fire recently for an ad campaign featuring...

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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

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By Sayantani DasGupta, MedPage Today | 08.05.2025

It's just a jeans ad.

It's not that deep.

It's just social media outrage.

Should physicians care about the recent...

magnifying glass on blue background
By Katherine Long, Ben Foldy and Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal | 08.05.2025

ARCADIA, Calif.—In early May, after a baby was hospitalized with possible signs of child abuse, police showed up at a...