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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 Carl Gierstorfer, The Atlantic | 03.28.2013

Selvi holds her tiny baby girl somewhat clumsily in her arms. She carefully strokes the thin legs of the helpless...

By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 03.28.2013
If you thought personalised advertising based on your Facebook status updates, Gmail content or online browsing behaviour was creepy, just...
By Caroline Wright and Anna Middleton, Genomes Unzipped | 03.28.2013
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has recently published recommendations for reporting incidental findings (IFs) in clinical exome and...
By Alison Motluk, National Post | 03.28.2013
A young Florida woman who suffered a stroke after donating her eggs to a Canadian couple is suing a Toronto...
By Françoise Baylis, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 03.27.2013

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Children born since the mid-1990s after ooplasm transfer (estimated to...

By Chris Bennett, Western Farm Press | 03.27.2013
China is surging ahead with a research project aimed at identifying millions of genetic variations in order to boost intelligence...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.27.2013
When Lars Steinmetz and his team published the genome of the world’s most famous human cell line earlier this month...
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.27.2013
A national screening programme for prostate cancer could be introduced by the NHS following an international effort by more than...