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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...

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...

a photo of the Francis Crick Institute
By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 03.22.2023

photo by Miguel Descart licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

In early March, I was in London, England for the Third...

A pencil with genetic code replacing the wooden shaft of the pencil
By Editorial, The Lancet | 03.18.2023

In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Natasha Mitchell, ABC [feat. CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...

A wrench on top of the human genome to symbolize gene editing
By Grace Browne, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...

A series of red blood cells, some are sickle shaped
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.16.2023

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging...

Illustration of scales of justice super-imposed over DNA strand
By Letlhokwa George Mpedi, Daily Maverick | 03.15.2023

In his 2021 novel Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro painted a disturbing picture of a world where...