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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 Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly...

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By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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By Staff, GMWatch | 03.28.2026

Following a recent podcast interview we were asked whether there is any solid scientific research looking at how gene expression...

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By Ryan Knutson and Emily Glazer, The Journal | 03.27.2026

Genetically engineered babies are banned in the U.S. But that isn’t stopping Silicon Valley tech titans from trying to make...

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By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 03.26.2026

SACRAMENTO, Ca. -- California’s $12 billion stem cell and gene therapy program scored a historic first today, announcing that it...

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By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.24.2026

 

This is the second part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by...

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By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 03.24.2026

Cathy Tie has an audacity more typical of a tech startup founder than a biotech executive. She dropped out of...