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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 The Times editorial board, The Los Angeles Times | 12.16.2013
The Supreme Court erred grievously this year when it permitted Maryland police to collect DNA samples from people who had...
By John Gillott, BioNews | 12.16.2013
The House of Commons Education Committee is currently investigating 'Underachievement in education of white working class children'. At a session...
By Russell Brandom, The Verge | 12.13.2013
How does a mother’s weight-loss surgery affect her child’s risk of obesity? It’s a question scientists have been struggling with...
By Steve Connor, Independent | 12.13.2013
Genes play a bigger role in educational achievement than teachers, schools or home environment, and the reason we know this...
By Science Daily, Science Daily | 12.12.2013

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 12.12.2013

Doctors, researchers and companies should expect to find information they were not looking for in genetic analyses, imaging scans and...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2013
A plan to finance the California stem cell agency after its $3 billion runs out in 2017 was shunted aside...
By Jane Wakefield, BBC News | 12.09.2013

Raymond McCauley may go blind as he gets older.

He knows this because when he had his genetic code read...