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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...

photo of Giorgia Meloni
By Emma Bubola, The New York Times | 10.16.2024

Photo of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from CPAC 2022 con Hermann Tertsch y Victor Gonzalez by Vox España licensed...

Genome and Data
By Helena Kudiabor, Nature | 10.14.2024

A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited...

Eugenics
By Daniel Vergano , Scientific American | 10.14.2024

Former president Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, has done at least one service to the cause of honesty. In...

Donald Trump
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times | 10.11.2024

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

Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...

DNA graphic
By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

graphic of gene therapy
By Jocelyn Kaiser , Science | 10.09.2024

Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...

Trump
By Isabela Dias, Mother Jones | 10.07.2024

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It was...

DNA dissolving
By Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine | 10.02.2024

WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...