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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...

egg freezing graphic
By Eleanor Hayward and Joanna Crawford, The Times | 03.29.2024

Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...

Camera
By Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...

sam altman at TechCrunch conference
By Hilary Brueck, Business Insider | 03.23.2024

"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...

Cameraman filming movie
By Jennifer Maas, Variety | 03.22.2024

We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...

Kidney surgery operating room
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.21.2024

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...

Gene therapy costs graphic
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.20.2024

There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...

Mexican Flag
By Carey Gillan, UnSpun | 03.18.2024

A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...

DNA wheel
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2024

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...