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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 Diane Tober and Francine Coeytaux, RH Reality Check | 09.04.2013

On August 13, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed AB 926, a bill sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive...

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Conversation | 09.03.2013
Organ trafficking and illicit transplant surgeries have infiltrated global medical practice. But despite the evidence of widespread criminal networks and...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel, Huffington Post | 09.03.2013

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed researchers to pay women for having their...

By David Dobbs, Pacific Standard | 09.03.2013
A few years ago, Gene Robinson, of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap...
By Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2013 | 09.03.2013
Few creatures have ever existed that can match the sheer weirdness of Australia’s gastric brooding frog. As the name suggests...
By Amy Corderoy, The Age | 09.02.2013
An infertile Australian woman is pregnant after growing new eggs in ovarian tissue transplanted into her abdomen in a world...
By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 09.02.2013
"I don't know what information I want," a woman whose whole genome was being mapped recently told me. Her son...
By Michele Goodwin and Judy Norsigian, WeNews | 09.01.2013
(WOMENSENEWS)-- On Sept. 5, 2012, a 53-year-old grandmother from Chicago, Cindy Reutzel, birthed her daughter's baby, and said she would...