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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 Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid | 05.02.2025

Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni from the 
Office of the Vice President of the United States

$5000 bonuses...

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By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 05.01.2025

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Back in the 1980s when I...

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By Oluwatosin Adesoye, Sickle Cell Disease News | 04.30.2025

Several weeks ago, when news of the first sickle cell disease patient to be cured by gene therapy went viral...

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By Ariel Messman-Rucker, Pride | 04.30.2025

Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights...

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By Aitor Hernandez-Morales, Politico | 04.30.2025

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The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from registering children...

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By Jonathan Michels, Jacobin | 04.29.2025

In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate...

A gene therapy cartoon
By Laura Ungar, Associated Press | 04.26.2025

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...

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By Lisa Hagen, NPR | 04.25.2025

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“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...