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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...

Graphic of human head with circuit board
By Maren Behrensen, Tech Policy Press | 07.02.2025

Why is it dangerous when corporate executives, entrepreneurs and investors with enormous wealth and power collectively control the development and...

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By Joel Kotkin, UnHerd | 07.01.2025

Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was...

Elon Musk
By Al Letson, Reveal | 06.28.2025

Photo "Elon Musk Presenting Tesla's Fully Autonomous Future" by  on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

What do Silicon...

Graphic of a scientist looking at sperm and an egg under a microscope
By Pat Duggins, Alabama Public Radio | 06.27.2025

PAT DUGGINS-- If I were to say, ‘man, have you seen the price of eggs these days?’ You're probably thinking...

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By Pallab Gosh and Gwyndaf Hughes, BBC News | 06.26.2025

Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is...

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By Sophie Alexander and Ike Swetlitz, Bloomberg | 06.25.2025

A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money...

Elon Musk headshot
By Charlie Warzel and Hana Kiros, The Atlantic | 06.24.2025

Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

In April, Ezibon Khamis was dispatched...

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By Rhys Blakely, The Times | 06.24.2025

Scientists have created fertile mice from male genetic material alone, a breakthrough that could one day open the door to...