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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 Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Our Blog | 05.17.2013
Angelina Jolie certainly has good intentions in sharing her experience with breast cancer genetic testing and her decision to have...
By David King, CNN | 05.17.2013

(CNN) -- Today was a strange day. I'm used to handling the brief but overwhelming burst of media attention that...

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.16.2013

Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer...

By MercoPress, MercoPress [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.16.2013

The landmark discovery by an Oregon Health & Science University team involved taking a skin cell from an 8-month-old child...

By Julie Rovner, NPR | 05.16.2013
The news that U.S. scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that...
By AP, Associated Press | 05.16.2013

DES MOINES (AP) — People convicted of certain aggravated misdemeanors in Iowa now will be required to submit DNA samples...

By Miriam Zoll, RH Reality Check | 05.15.2013
In an essay recently published in the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Elizabeth Richards, author of the new book Motherhood...
By Tara Brady, Daily Mail | 05.15.2013
A woman who was the first to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor has had her pregnancy...