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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...

California polling station
By Katarina Zimmer, The Scientist | 10.24.2020

Over the course of its 16-year existence, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Oakland has helped transform its state...

By Julia Creet, The Conversation | 10.22.2020

On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence...

Stem cell under microscope
By Rachel Bluth, California Healthline [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.21.2020

SACRAMENTO — In an election year dominated by a chaotic presidential race and splashy statewide ballot initiative campaigns, Californians are...

Map of the world showing countries that prohibit heritable human genome editing in red
By Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 10.20.2020

Abstract

Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...

Indian woman with baby at doctor
By Gauri Agarwal, The Times of India | 10.19.2020

The Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in September this year. It has been a...

CRISPR-Cas9
By Mahlet N. Mesfin and Scott Moore, The Hill | 10.18.2020

Last week, two women — Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier — were awarded the Nobel Prize for their groundbreaking discovery of...

Father and baby
By Elena Barysheva, DW | 10.17.2020

A few years ago, lawyer Vladimir (name changed) who lives in a big Russian city decided to have a child...

Female scientist in black and white
By Henry T. Greely, STAT | 10.17.2020

In the course of just under two months that started 40 years ago this week, five events occurred that shaped...