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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 Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 10.14.2013
This week’s Retro Report video tells the story of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal. The...
By Science Daily, Science Daily | 10.12.2013

Oct. 12, 2013 — New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that the tiny proportion of a cell's...

By Zoë Corbyn, The Guardian | 10.12.2013
Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and – gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 10.12.2013
In recent years Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has written extensively about the neuro-enhancement of human relationships. In a number of...
By Kieran Campbell, news.com.au | 10.10.2013
AUSTRALIAN parents who want to choose the gender of their children have been locked into expensive overseas treatments after a...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.09.2013
BURLINGAME, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today mulled over a recommendation that they focus intensely on...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 10.09.2013

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The federal government is considering whether to allow scientists to...

By Jill Werman Harris, New York Times | 10.07.2013
When Tracy Dunbrook, a bioethicist in Sherman, Conn., tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, she was told she had...