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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...

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Andrew Pulrang, Forbes | 03.30.2020

A long-time, low-grade worry for people with disabilities has become a red alert in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic...

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By Eric B. Kmiec and Jonathan Marron, Scientific American | 03.28.2020

As headline-catching new technologies emerge—like tools to “edit” our DNA—researchers, doctors, patients and the general public are excited about the...

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By Amy Silverman, Arizona Daily Star | 03.27.2020

Advocates for people with intellectual disabilities are concerned that those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and other such conditions...

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By Anon, Gulf Times [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.27.2020

The question of where the line should be drawn in human gene editing, and if it should be allowed to...

By Sirin Kale, The Guardian | 03.26.2020

James Washington, a 37-year-old lawyer originally from Norfolk, UK, was on the US Department of State website last Thursday trying...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 03.24.2020

Joe Durak and Valeria Martinez Viademonte are expecting their second child on April 16. Problem is, their home is in...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Slate | 03.24.2020

For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the...

By Lily Wakefield, Pink News | 03.23.2020

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic affect on LGBT+ parents who are expecting children via surrogacy, according to an...