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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...

Facial recognition camera
By Gregory Barber, Wired | 11.03.2020

IN JUNE, THE school board in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was facing a series of votes on the budget for an...

Book cover
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 11.02.2020

The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans Anjali Vats Stanford Univ. Press (2020)

In July...

Star of David
By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 11.02.2020

There were 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents reported in the US in 2019—a record-breaking year as tracked by the Anti-Defamation League, and...

Halt sign
By Farah Qaiser, Forbes [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.31.2020

In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...

Henrietta Lacks
By Alexandra Witze, Nature | 10.29.2020

A major biomedical-research organization has for the first time aimed to make financial reparation for the continuing experimental use of...

Chromosomes
By Megan Molteni , Wired | 10.29.2020

IN 2017, RESEARCHERS at Oregon Health and Science University came out with some big (if true) news. Led by a...

Human embryo
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 10.29.2020

A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of...

scissors cutting DNA
By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.29.2020

Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...