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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 Kingsley Napley, Claire Wood and Katie Newbury, Lexology | 11.14.2013

The number of couples entering into surrogacy arrangements has been steadily rising in recent years, including gay couples keen to...

By Daniella Silva and Tracy Connor, NBC News | 11.14.2013
Ohio's governor has postponed the execution of a child-killer so he can study his offer to donate organs — a...
By Connie St Louis, The Conversation | 11.14.2013
Reflecting on her imminent departure as head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the body that regulates IVF and...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 11.14.2013
IT'S huge and it could help cure cancer. That's the aim, anyway, of the world's largest cancer database, launched this...
By Charlie Cooper, The Independent | 11.13.2013
Limits on the number of twins and triplets that can be born as a result of IVF treatment have been...
By Jon Walker, USA Today | 11.13.2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A philanthropist who made his money as a credit card provider is giving $100 million to...
By Jonathan Webber, Genomics Law Report | 11.12.2013
The September 24, 2013 grant of a patent to 23andMe for “gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations” has stirred...
By Dr Steven Fleming, BioNews | 11.11.2013
Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently criticised the overuse of intra-cytoplasmic sperm...