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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 The Editors, Scientific American | 05.27.2013
“We will get woolly mammoths back.” So vowed environmentalist Stewart Brand at the TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., in...
By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News | 05.27.2013
Five seriously disabled stroke patients have shown small signs of recovery following the injection of stem cells into their brain...
By Editorial, The Sacramento Bee | 05.25.2013

 With a new chairman, Jonathan Thomas, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine claims it has turned a page. Thomas has...

By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 05.25.2013
A fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects of...
By Miriam Zoll, Slate | 05.24.2013
In her recent Slate article, “I Should Have Frozen My Eggs,” Amy Klein, who is currently in her...
By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
By Helen Wallace, Public Service Europe | 05.23.2013
The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and...
By Merlin Chowkwanyun, The Atlantic | 05.23.2013

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which...