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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...

poster for "King of Clones" with Netflix logo
By Nick Schager, The Daily Beast | 06.23.2023

Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia

Cloning is, at heart, about the fear of death and the...

a picture of 4 skulls drawn with white lines on a black background with different parts of the skulls highlighted
By Edward Ongweso Jr. , The Nation | 06.23.2023

In the opening pages of his magisterial Bay Area history, Imperial San Francisco, historian Gray Brechin presents his book as...

two people editing parts of DNA
By Alice Park, Time | 06.23.2023

For genetic conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, there is little doctors can do to slow or treat the condition other...

5 eggs and what seems to be a needle
By Susan Burton, The New York Times and Serial Productions | 06.22.2023

The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full...

3 babies in 3 different shades of green and they are being compared and ranked against each other
By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 06.22.2023

Campaigners in Japan have reacted angrily to a government report revealing that children as young as nine were among thousands...

a hand holding a pregnancy test with many other pregnancy tests surrounding it
By Tracy Lowe, Parentology [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 06.21.2023

If you could choose the healthiest embryo to carry so that your future child could avoid deadly diseases, would you...

scientist injecting with syringe into egg with sperm inside it - with 3 test tubes in the foreground
By Stuart Newman and Tina Stevens, Independent Science News | 06.19.2023

Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of producing laboratory-crafted human children is proceeding rapidly...

a clump of 6 cells within a circular sac-like structure - all in orange
By Philip Ball, Nature | 06.16.2023

Two teams of scientists have announced that they have grown embryo-like structures, made entirely from human stem cells, that are...