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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...

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By Ari Schulman, The New York Times | 09.09.2024

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

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By Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling, Stat | 09.03.2024

Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In her 20 years caring for...

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By Sophie Zadeh, PET | 09.02.2024

Dr Sophie Zadeh presents an overview of the Young Adults Study which has garnered the views of donor conceived young...

Egg Donation
By Pandora Dewan, Newsweek | 09.02.2024

Egg donation offers thousands of U.S. couples the opportunity to start a family, enabling them to carry a child when...

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By Hannah Flynn, PET | 09.02.2024

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge 11" by Michael Vadon licensed under CC by SA 4.0

Donald Trump has...

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By Kylie Marsh and Herbert L. White , The Charlotte Post | 08.31.2024
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By Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science | 08.26.2024

Since CRISPR was first conceived as a gene-editing tool in 2012, scientists have seen its awesome potential.

It promises to...

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By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Live Science | 08.26.2024

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that...