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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

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...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

Canadian lawbooks
By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 08.30.2023

"'Canadian Criminal Law, Review' vols. 2-10"
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GM plant seedlings in test tubes
By Claire Robinson, GM Watch | 08.30.2023

Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...

Sketch of a robot face
By AFP, France24 | 08.28.2023

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...

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By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...

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By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | 08.18.2023

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which...

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By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 08.18.2023

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids?  The press alert...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 08.17.2023

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on...

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By Anna Molas, The Conversation | 08.17.2023

Spain performs more than half of all egg donation treatments across Europe. The country is the largest provider of...