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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...

DNA in test tubes
By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 02.20.2025

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for...

photo of pipetting in laboratory
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 02.19.2025

California scientists took what looked like an $800 million hit last week in their efforts to develop revolutionary treatments and...

CRISPR graphic
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 02.19.2025

On a sunny September day in 2023, scientists at CRISPR Therapeutics invited me to peer through their microscopes. Through the...

flag of Japan on blue background
By Ewan Bolton, The Telegraph | 02.18.2025

Just last week, in the Miyagi prefecture of Japan, the local governor met victims of an official eugenics policy to...

sickle cells in a blood sample
By Bertha Coombs, CNBC | 02.18.2025

Starting in his early teens, Deshawn “DJ” Chow wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to live a normal life. Crushing...

graphic of flags of Georgia and Thailand
By Blene Woldeselasse, Humans Rights Research Center | 02.18.2025

Three Thai women have been rescued from a human egg trafficking operation in Georgia, run by a Chinese human trafficking...