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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 Lauran Neergard, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 10.07.2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Little Amelia Sloan became a pioneer shortly after her birth.

The healthy baby is part of a...
By Arlene Bynon, The Arlene Bynon Show | 10.07.2013

The Arlene Bynon Show on SiriusXM radio is a national affairs show airing weekdays from 4 - 6pm eastern time...

By Nick Collins, The Telegraph [UK] | 10.04.2013

A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will...

By John Horgan, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Last spring, I kicked up a kerfuffle by proposing that research on race and intelligence, given its potential for...

By Katie McDonough, Salon | 10.04.2013

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that, while nominally banning abortions based on the sex...

By Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist | 10.04.2013
There’s a moment in the documentary film ‘It’s a Girl’ that is at once chilling and heart-rending.

A woman smiles...
By Dov Fox, Huffington Post | 10.04.2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) this week awarded a patent on "gamete donor selection" to 23andMe, the genetic...

By Osagie K. Obasagie, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Robert G. Edwards might not be a household name, but the innovation he pioneered along with Patrick Steptoe certainly is...