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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...

Gene editing process
By Catherine Shaffer, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 08.03.2020

Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in...

CRISPR genome engineering
By Stuart A. Newman and Tina Stevens, Medium | 08.03.2020

Studies in animals, including one described recently in Wired, show that the gene manipulation technique CRISPR has a habit...

Robert Edwards
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.02.2020

If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Issues in Science and Technology | 07.31.2020

In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...

By Caitlin Harrington, Wired | 07.30.2020

JEFF JOHNSON WAS in a hurry. His lunch break was nearing its end, and he needed to catch the 6 train...

Ota Benga
By Julia Jacobs, New York Times | 07.29.2020

Ota Benga at the 1904 World’s Fair

The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo, three other zoos and...

Covid-19 Vaccine
By Antonio Regalado , MIT Technology Review | 07.29.2020

Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout...

Baby peeking
By Andrew Roth, The Guardian | 07.29.2020

As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the...