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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 Tory Shepherd, The Guardian | 06.13.2025

IVF is “big business” and experts are concerned about conflicts of interest between profit-making and helping families have children.

Monash...

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By Hilary Bowman-Smart and Craig Stanbury, The Conversation | 06.12.2025

Monash IVF CEO Michael Knaap has resigned after one of the company’s Melbourne clinics mistakenly transferred the wrong embryo to...

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By Kylie Robison, Wired | 06.11.2025

In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers...

DNA strands
By Staff, The Associated Press | 06.10.2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.05.2025

Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on...

graphic of healthcare provider taking notes to rank test tubes of DNA
By Isabel van Brugen, Newsweek | 06.05.2025

A U.S.-based biotech company has unveiled a new in vitro fertilization (IVF) option that allows parents to select embryos based...

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By Christina Jewett, The New York Times | 06.05.2025

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared that he wanted to expand access to experimental therapies but conceded that...