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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 Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.09.2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Obama administration are urging a federal appeals court to...
By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 12.09.2013
In the wake of a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Salt Lake City-based...
By Marilynn Marchione, AP | 12.08.2013
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...
By USA Today, USA Today | 12.08.2013

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...

By Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post | 12.08.2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Growing national attention to the 20th-century practice of forcibly sterilizing thousands of Americans has put new pressure...
By BBC, BBC | 12.06.2013

The chances of a woman having a baby following IVF go "very rapidly downhill" from the age of 37, according...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 12.06.2013
Bowing to the Food and Drug Administration, the genetic testing service 23andMe said Thursday that it would stop providing consumers...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2013
The likely future of the $3 billion California stem cell agency was unveiled this week, and it envisions an enterprise...