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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...

stem cell on purple background
By Peter Aldhous, Scientific American | 07.02.2024

In June a notice posted on the website of the journal Nature set a new scientific record. It withdrew what...

Image of the supreme court building
By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times | 07.02.2024

Photo by Claire Anderson on Unsplash

Second only to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on when presidents are immune from...

IVF
By Sonia Suter and Naomi Cahn, PET | 07.01.2024

Image by Dusdn5959 from Wikimedia Commons

Since the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade (see BioNews ...

X-ray image of a pair of lungs
By Katie LaGrone, WPTV | 06.28.2024

Image by National Cancer Institute from Unsplash

TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa jury recently found the now-defunct Lung Institute in...

Image of a model human brain
By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 06.27.2024

Image by Robina Weermeijer from Unsplash

A molecular-editing tool that’s small enough to be delivered to the brain shuts down...

DNA dissolving
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.27.2024

Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...

Image of a European Union meeting room
By Shivam Jadaun and Shivani, JURISTnews | 06.27.2024

Image by European Council from Flickr

In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still...

Partial image from Bridge Recombination Mechanism video
By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.26.2024

Partial screenshot from The Bridge Recombination Mechanism
video by The Arc Institute on YouTube (CC)

Buried in a family...