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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...

embryo
By Max Barnhart, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.09.2026

On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released...

Fertility clinic photo
By Mark Ellwood, Air Mail | 06.06.2026

How much would you pay to be a parent? For years, Americans who turned to surrogacy could expect to spend...

lab research photo
By Megan Molteni, Stat | 06.05.2026

In 2021, the federal office charged with ensuring that the vast research enterprise bankrolled by the Department of Health and...

an image of developing embryos
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 06.04.2026

Scientists at Columbia University have edited the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy, an achievement that could open...

ivf graphic
By Staff, ABC News | 06.01.2026

The Victorian government is introducing legislation it says will make IVF clinics safer and more accountable following high-profile bungles by...

a graphic showing removal of a piece of a strand of DNA to modify it
By Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian | 05.30.2026

On a Friday evening in late April, Cathy Tie, the Canadian serial entrepreneur and self-styled “Biotech Barbie”, is centre stage...

a person swimming in a pool
By Virginia Heffernan, The New Republic | 05.29.2026

Here and there, it’s been a good month for humanity—or “magnificas humanitas,” as Pope Leo XIV calls us poor featherless...

DNA strand
By Moe Alsumidaie, The Clinical Trial Vanguard | 05.26.2026

Picture the moment a gene therapy trial’s safety monitor pulls up a patient record — years after the last dose...