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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...

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By Save Our Seeds and GMWatch, Save Our Seeds | 06.23.2025

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture...

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By Ed Cara, Gizmodo | 06.22.2025

In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.20.2025

A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe...

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By Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive | 06.17.2025

A new 13-year study published in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy—a technique...

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By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 06.16.2025

23andMe's two-step sale to a nonprofit led by former CEO Anne Wojcicki is nothing more than a dance around California's...

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By Angus Liu, Fierce Pharma | 06.16.2025

A second patient has died following treatment with Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys, raising more doubts about the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)...

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By Elise Kinsella, ABC News | 06.15.2025

When *Sarah and her partner needed fertility testing, it was Monash IVF that the pair turned to.

"Having a quick...

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By Siddhi Mahatole and Mariam E. Sunny, Reuters | 06.13.2025

Anne Wojcicki is set to regain control of 23andMe after a $305 million bid from a nonprofit she controls topped...