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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...

mosquito on a leaf
By Greg Allen, NPR | 01.26.2024

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. 

At least 700,000 people...

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By Morenike Samuel, Sapiens | 01.25.2024

“DON’T PLAY WITH HER! SHE HAS SICKLE CELL”

On a sunny day in Southern Nigeria, my uncle and aunt took...

a photo of the BGI headquarters building with letters BGI in front of it
By Ken Dilanian, NBC News | 01.25.2024

"BGI Group HQ" by Scotted400 is licensed under CC by SA 4.0 

Bipartisan legislation was introduced in...

headphones on table
By Laura Ungar, Time | 01.25.2024

Photo by Lee Campbell on Unsplash

Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.

A small...

DNA strand on grey background
By Dyani Lewis, Nature | 01.24.2024

Yves Moreau thought something was amiss when he came across a genetics paper about Tibetans in China. In the 2022...

a photo of Penn Museum
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 01.23.2024

For nearly 2 centuries, the skulls of 20 Black people who died in Philadelphia have formed part of the Morton...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 01.23.2024

Photo by Alexey Ruban on UnSplash

Aissam Dam, an 11-year-old boy, grew up in a world of profound silence. He...

a uniformed police officer searches on laptop
By Dhruv Mehrorta, Wired | 01.22.2024

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one...