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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 Steve Connor, The Independent | 11.06.2013
Some of the biggest discoveries in science often hide away in plain sight for many years before their importance is...
By Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR | 11.06.2013
Children who were conceived with in vitro fertilization have the same overall chance of developing childhood cancers as those conceived...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.05.2013
Fertility doctors in Beijing have begun testing a new method for genome analysis of human eggs before using them for...
By Jennifer Bleyer, Psychology Today | 11.04.2013
He's a 45-year-old divorced father of three, but Andrew lives for the text message he'll get from a woman announcing...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.04.2013
After spending months working on a series of stories about the trillions of friendly microbes that live in and on...
By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 11.04.2013
It's 2039, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are fresh off their win in Super Bowl LXXIII, their third straight championship victory...
By Coralie Colmez & Leila Schneps, Nautilus | 11.03.2013
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 11.03.2013
The California stem cell agency is nearing the end of its “normal” life span, and the topic of its future...