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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 James McCarthy, Wales Online | 09.22.2013

A one-year-old baby is among thousands of children who have had their DNA taken by police officers in Wales.

A...

By The Economist, The Economist | 09.21.2013

The practice of aborting female foetuses is found mostly in China and other Asian countries. But it is prevalent in...

By John Ross, The Australian | 09.20.2013
SCIENTISTS have called for time-out on an experimental therapy which could produce babies with three biological parents.

A paper published...
By Evan Charney, Independent Science News | 09.19.2013
One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis...
By Henry Gee, The Guardian | 09.19.2013
You'd think from the way that science tends to be reported in the popular prints, as they used to be...
By Elizabeth E. Joh, Genomics Law Report | 09.19.2013
With its decision in Maryland v. King [pdf], the Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of...
By Claire Cain Miller and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.18.2013
Silicon Valley has an obsession with immortality, and not just as science fiction. Many people here say they believe that...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.17.2013
A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee approved the first uses of genomic data from the HeLa cell line...