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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 Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously...

Elon Musk
By Justin Kirkland, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

Image “Elon Musk” by Debbie Rowe, Royal Society on
Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

I got into...

Stop Forced Sterilization graphic
By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 02.28.2025

“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero,
San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...

police officer searches on a keyboard
By Mike Baker, The New York Times | 02.25.2025

As investigators struggled for weeks to find who might have committed the brutal stabbings of four University of Idaho students...

DNA in magnifying glass
By Staff, GMWatch | 02.24.2025

In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy...

graphic of a 'superbaby'
By Staff, The Economist | 02.21.2025

One of the greatest scandals in modern science began with a late-2010s advertisement for HIV-positive couples looking to have children...

gene therapy graphic
By Angus Liu, Fierce Pharma | 02.21.2025

Pfizer is pulling further away from the gene therapy field with its decision to discontinue hemophilia product Beqvez.

The New...

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By Angelica Peebles, CNBC | 02.21.2025

Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said...