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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...

fertility clinic
By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News | 05.19.2025

A bombing this weekend at a fertility clinic in California is raising fears that the threat of violence that has...

DNA in test tubes
By Mariam E Sunny and Siddhi Mahatole, Reuters | 05.19.2025

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN.O), opens new tab said on Monday it will buy genomics firm 23andMe Holding for $256 million through...

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore
By Paul Josephson, Common Dreams | 05.17.2025

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” by Gage Skidmore
via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0

Charles Fremont Dight has...

body and DNA graphic
By Nicolas Le Dévédec, The Conversation | 05.14.2025

The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings so they will perform better. In doing so, they contribute above...

Alondra Nelson photo
By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 05.13.2025

“Alondra Nelson” by Sage Ross on Wikimedia Commons
licensed under CC by SA 2.0

In an unprecedented move, a member...

gene editing
By Megan Molteni, Stat | 05.13.2025

Leading trade organizations representing the makers of cell and gene therapies are calling for a 10-year international moratorium on the...

DNA strand
By Blake Brittain, Reuters | 05.12.2025

The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid...