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IN THE Operation Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, 50 wealthy parents were charged with trying to get their children into elite universities through fraudulent means. The story dramatically demonstrated the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their...

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that it could be used to tackle cancer, forms of inherited blindness, various superbug infections and even HIV...

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

Silhouette of a human with the Scales of Justice where the brain would be
By Geoffrey Mock, Duke Today | 03.31.2023

For decades genetics and genomics researchers have used race, ethnicity, ancestry and other population descriptors in research that has opened...

A human face being scanned by AI technology
By Kashmir Hill and Ryan Mac, The New York Times | 03.31.2023

On the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving, Randal Quran Reid was driving his white Jeep to his mother’s home outside Atlanta...

stem cells dyed yellow on a green background
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 03.30.2023

Seventeen California scientists won a total of $26 million this week to devise ways to overcome knowledge gaps and bottlenecks...

a neon sign in the shape of a person's side profile and brain. The profile is red and the brain is yellow. This is on an unlit brown background.
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 03.30.2023

CHICAGO — When she entered the field of Alzheimer’s research a quarter century ago, Lisa Barnes was deeply disappointed to...

A DNA test strip
By Noura Abul-Husn, STAT | 03.29.2023

Twenty years ago, virtually all people seeking genetic testing were individuals diagnosed with diseases possibly linked to their genetic makeup...

the silhouettes of three people. Two are red and are on either side. A pink person is slightly higher than the rest with an arrow pointing up and a star at the top.
By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, Literary Hub | 03.27.2023

When the gentleman-​scholar Francis Galton inspected his fellow men of Victorian Britain, he found them wanting: “We want abler commanders...

a person with gloves in a lab setting holding a test tube.
By Lisa Rosenbaum, New England Journal of Medicine | 03.23.2023

Ethan Weiss: I think it became incredibly clear to me during Covid when . . . I don’t know...

a blue DNA double helix with various lines of genetic code in the background.
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 03.23.2023

THE 2018 ARREST of Joseph James DeAngelo, infamously known as the Golden State Killer, put genetic genealogy on the map...