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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 Emi Nietfeld, Wired | 12.11.2024

FOR YEARS NOW, aspiring parents have been designing their children. Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting their future baby’s...

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By Hannah Devlin and David Pegg, The Guardian | 12.10.2024

"Richard Lynn" by Matt Gibson licensed under CC by SA 3.0 

A leading academic publisher is reviewing...

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By Kristine Servando, Bloomberg | 12.05.2024

(Bloomberg) — A woman in Hong Kong had to travel to two different countries to attempt conceiving a baby on...

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By Staff, Reuters | 12.04.2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Wednesday it had entered into agreements with Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX.O), opens...

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By Staff, Center for Food Safety | 12.03.2024

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SAN FRANCISCO—In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ...

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By Alex Loftus, BBC News | 12.03.2024

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried...

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By Josie Ensor, The Times | 12.03.2024

It was somewhere between the third and fourth child that Catherine Pakaluk had a revelation.

“There was this sense that...

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By Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, Aeon | 12.02.2024

In the 18th century, European scholars began to envision a more enlightened world in harmony with nature. The old aristocratic...