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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...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.17.2023

Photo by Andrew Liu on Unsplash

The baby baboon is wearing a mesh gown and appears to be sitting upright...

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By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 07.16.2023

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets...

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By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.15.2023

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On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San...

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By Jayasree K. Iyer, STAT | 07.12.2023

The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with makers of two gene-based treatments...

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By Farah Master, Reuters | 07.11.2023

China will "severely crack down" on illegal activities related to the use of assisted reproductive technologies such as the buying...

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By Tomoko Otake, The Japan Times | 07.11.2023

It was a report meant to draw a line under Japan’s tragic history with eugenics and forced sterilizations. But even...

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By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 07.10.2023

Last week, a law about AI and hiring went into effect in New York City, and everyone is up in...

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By Paul Dempsey, The Institution of Engineering and Technology | 07.10.2023

Advances in brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics could improve the quality of life for millions, but they carry risks that even...