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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 Laasya Samhita, New Scientist | 12.19.2013
Imagine if we could turn back time. A team that has identified a new way in which cells age has...
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Amanda Schaffer, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2013

Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the...

By Marisa Peñaloza, WBUR | 12.17.2013
Thousands of children are conceived using sperm and egg donors every year, a group large enough to entice MTV to...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 12.17.2013
Lots of children have three parents.  A boy’s mother and father might divorce, and one remarries.  A girl might be...
By The Editorial Board, USA Today | 12.16.2013
Opening the door to genetic testing and its potential health benefits to anyone with $99 and the desire to spit...
By Karen Weintraub, The New York Times | 12.16.2013
Alana Saarinen sat at the piano, playing smoothly and with feeling. Behind her, plastic toys shared floor space with a...