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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...

By Wendy Kramer, Medium | 12.23.2013
In 1988 the Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 30,000 children were born via donor insemination during the year 1986/87...
By Alana Cattapan, Impact Ethics | 12.21.2013
On December 10, 2013, the Montreal Gazette published a story describing an ongoing dispute between Dr. Seang Lin Tan and...
By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 12.20.2013
The title of my blog post is provocative, I know, but I’m actually just lifting it from the title of...
By Shereen Jegtvig, Reuters | 12.20.2013
(Reuters Health) - People who donated sperm and eggs before 1998 in one Australian state were able to remain anonymous...
By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 12.19.2013

For better and worse, 2013 has been a year in which several related issues familiar to those who follow human...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.19.2013
Researchers have  for the first time determined the genome sequence of human egg cells without destroying them.

The feat, reported...
By Dan Vergano, National Geographic | 12.19.2013
Advances in our understanding of the brain have turned neuroscience into one of the hottest frontiers in research, and in...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 12.19.2013
In May 2004 Daniel Markingson, a patient with schizophrenia in an anti-psychotic drug trial at the University of Minnesota in...