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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 Fyodor D. Urnov and Sadik H. Kassim, Nature | 04.21.2026

In February, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a radical rethink of how scientists, physicians and manufacturers develop...

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By Alex Aylward, Daniel J. Fairbanks, Maria Kiladi, and Gregory Radick , Heredity | 04.20.2026

Genetics and eugenics co-evolved at the beginning of the twentieth century and remained associated through the 1940s and beyond. Early...

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By Alfonso Martinez Arias, Nicolas Rivron, and Naomi Moris, BioNews | 04.20.2026

The ability of pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into different cell types has enabled the creation of stem-cell-based embryo models...

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By George Janes, BioNews | 04.20.2026

New regulations in sperm donation are being implemented by Belgium's Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP), following revelations...

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By Abby Vesoulis, Mother Jones | 04.18.2026

Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic...

blue gloved hand pokes needle into fertilized chicken egg
By Julianna LeMieux, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.14.2026

Twenty years ago, Sven Bocklandt, PhD, sought to create a hypoallergenic cat. He had the genetic engineering chops to do...

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By Carly Mallenbaum and Alex Golden, Axios | 04.08.2026

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations that can determine everything...

Image of multiple babies
By Miguel Muñoz, Cadena SER [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.08.2026

"Para ellos, una familia numerosa no solo es una preferencia personal, sino que es una obligación. Creen que tener tantos...