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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 Carl Elliott, The New York Times | 05.07.2024

Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an...

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By Charlotte Hu, Vox | 05.06.2024

Medicine has entered a new era in which scientists have the tools to change human genetics directly, creating the potential...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.06.2024

It was a cool morning at the beef teaching unit in Gainesville, Florida, and cow number #307 was bucking in...

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By Staff, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.06.2024

Results from a small clinical study suggest that EDIT-101, a CRISPR-based gene editing therapy for an inherited form of Leber’s...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.06.2024

On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with...

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By Emi Nietfeld, The Atlantic | 05.02.2024

A sperm donor fathers more than 150 children. A cryobank misleads prospective parents about a donor’s stellar credentials and...

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By Lauren Quinn, Hazlitt | 05.01.2024

“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”

Her voice came heavy through my headphones as...

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By William Schulz, The Boston Globe | 05.01.2024

Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash

Boxes of old family photos, letters, and other memorabilia have been sitting in my...