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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...

Selection in a lab
By Michael Le Page, NewScientist | 07.12.2020

The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help...

Genetic Information
By Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020

Canada's highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance...

By John Jackson, Fardels Bear | 07.08.2020

“In the fullness of time” Steve Hsu assures the listeners on a recent podcast (more about the podcast below) Michigan...

DNA in color
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 07.08.2020

A peculiar bacterial enzyme has allowed researchers to achieve what even the popular CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system couldn’t manage: targeted changes...

Drawing of a gene edit
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.07.2020

CRISPR’S POTENTIAL FOR curing inherited disease has made headlines, including at WIRED, for years. ( Hereherehere...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.07.2020

A report revealing China’s effort to collect DNA from millions of men to help solve crimes is raising concerns among...

By Bethany Brookshire, ScienceNews | 07.07.2020

Henrietta Lacks, from whom the “immortal” HeLa cell line was derived in 1951, without permission or compensation

Ethical concerns abound...

By Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 07.06.2020

Transhumanists are no strangers to controversy. How could they be when Jeffrey Epstein numbered himself among their longstanding adherents and...