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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...

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By Alcott Wei, South China Morning Post | 07.13.2024

China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.

Germline gene engineering relates...

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By Staff, AP-NORC | 07.12.2024

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Most adults support protecting access to in...

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By Parmy Olson, Bloomberg Opinion | 07.12.2024

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Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games promise to be...

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By Beth Duff-Brown, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | 07.12.2024

The debate over in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a hot-button policy and political issue, despite the medical procedure to...

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By Eva Roytburg, Fortune | 07.11.2024

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Elon Musk has devoted hundreds...

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By Julianna LeMieux, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.10.2024

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Microbiome research has faced a hurdle from the...

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By Katherine Bourzac, Nature | 07.10.2024

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Researchers analysed thousands of laboratory-made plasmids and discovered that nearly half...

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By Staff, Japan Times | 07.10.2024

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How did Japanese society, which was supposed to have transformed into a democracy after...