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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 Stuart A. Newman, CounterPunch | 05.05.2021

The Nobel prize in chemistry awarded last year to the biochemists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for the genetic modification...

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By Derya Ozdemir, Interesting Engineering | 05.03.2021

A new gene-editing tool has enabled Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering scientists to accomplish a feat that wouldn't...

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By Joseph Dunstan, ABC News | 05.03.2021

Most women undergoing IVF treatment in Australia are paying for one or more add-on treatments, despite limited proof of their...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.03.2021

Six patients with dementia traveled to Mexico last year to be injected with a gene therapy not authorized for use...

By Karen Weintraub, USA Today [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.02.2021

For more than 30 years, scientists have followed a rule they imposed on themselves to avoid growing a human embryo in...

"stop forced sterilization" poster
By Cristina Escobar, Refinery29 | 04.30.2021

“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero, San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...

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By Jill Cowan, New York Times | 04.28.2021

On Friday, the former state lawmaker Rob Bonta officially became California’s attorney general, stepping into a role that has served...

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By Amy Maxmen, Nature | 04.28.2021

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On a hazy day in November, Hardeep Singh received a text message from the...