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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 Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 10.06.2020

A lot happened last week in the department of problem sperm. 

For one thing, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided...

Wheat field
By Eva Sirinathsinghji, Kendra Klein and Dana Perls, Friends of the Earth | 10.06.2020

WASHINGTON — “Gene-silencing pesticides” now under development pose unique risks to surrounding ecosystems and beneficial insects, including bees, according to...

Voting by mail
By Terry McSweeney, NBC Bay Area [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.04.2020

Proposition 14 on the November ballot asks voters to approve $5.5 billion to continue funding stem cell research in California...

Reproductive surgery
By Gabriela Salas, National Women's Health Network | 10.02.2020

On September 15, 2020, a whistle-blower complaint alleged that immigrant women in a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

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By Oliver Carroll, The Independent | 10.02.2020

Russian authorities have warned of the arrest of gay men who have fathered children to surrogate mothers, firing what appears...

Horse eye
By Sarah Radford , Horse & Hound | 10.02.2020

Researchers in Argentina have produced what is believed to be the world’s first genetically edited horse embryo.

The team worked...

Home DNA testing
By Caitlin Harrington, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.02.2020

WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...