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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 Bernice Lottering, Gene Online | 11.08.2024

South Africa’s updated health-research ethics guidelines, which now include heritable human genome editing, have sparked concern among scientists. The revisions...

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By Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo and Traci Watson, Nature | 11.08.2024

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance...

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By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharmaDive | 11.05.2024

A medicine built around a more precise form of CRISPR gene editing appeared to work as designed in its first...

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By Bill Newman and Demetra Georgiou, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

We were alarmed to read the findings of your investigation into an international network of “race science” activists seeking to...

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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

When Simone Collins, a Republican running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, and her husband, Malcolm, were privately asked...

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By Jennifer Denbow, Nursing Clio | 10.31.2024

Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party...

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By Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, Psychology Today | 10.30.2024

In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolutionApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...

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By Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times | 10.29.2024

SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...