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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 Bernadette Tansey, Xconomy | 10.22.2013
UC Davis professor Paul Knoepfler’s new book about stem cells may never break into the New York Times best-seller ranks...
By Rachel Adams, The Huffington Post | 10.21.2013
October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, a time to recognize the accomplishments of people with Down syndrome and advocate...
By Carl Zimmer, Slate | 10.21.2013
In June 2007, James Watson, a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, went to Houston to pick up his genome...
By Kirsty Needham, The Sydney Morning Herald | 10.20.2013
Children of anonymous sperm donors should be allowed access to genetic information such as health history, height and eye colour...
By Christy Choi, South China Morning Post | 10.20.2013
Health chiefs are set to slap an advertising ban on Hong Kong businesses that offer medical tourism packages for the...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.20.2013
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Vanilla, saffron, patchouli. For centuries, spices and flavorings like these have come from exotic plants growing in...
By The Economist, The Economist | 10.19.2013

A SIMPLE idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but...

By Steven Rose, New Scientist | 10.18.2013
Is intelligence genetically determined? You might think so, if you saw the headline-grabbing report from UK education advisor Dominic Cummings...