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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...

23andme tests
By Thomas Germain, Gizmodo | 02.13.2024

With the business in a tailspin, 23andMe’s CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on your...

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By Sayyed Muhsin and Alexis Heng Boon Chin , BioNews | 02.12.2024

In 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced he created the world's first genome-edited babies (BioNews 977), which sparked a call...

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By Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.08.2024

An 11-year-old deaf boy is now able to hear in one ear after undergoing a gene therapy treatment at Children’s...

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By Adam Zewe, MIT News | 02.07.2024

A tiny device built by scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology could be used to...

DNA wheel
By Kate Nelson, Atmos | 02.06.2024

Across the globe, Native peoples are leading a movement to assert authority over what was theirs from the very start...

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By Zoe Greenberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.06.2024

Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing...

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By Sienna Rodgers, The House | 02.05.2024

Would you select an embryo according to its chances of higher intelligence? And is that even possible? Sienna Rodgers explores...

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By E.M. Wolkovich, Nature | 02.05.2024

I have just been accused of scientific fraud. Not data fraud — no one accused me of fabricating or misleadingly...