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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...

eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, UNDARK | 02.24.2020

In the summer of 2017, Julie Johnson saw a Facebook ad about egg donation. Somebody out there — an older...

tweezers removing a piece of DNA
By Ethan J. Weiss, STAT | 02.21.2020

I’m a doctor. I strive to fix things that are broken. Hearts, mostly. But my daughter Ruthie has forever changed...

NYBD police car door
By Edgar Sandoval, The New York Times | 02.20.2020

Two years ago, detectives offered a 12-year-old boy they had arrested a McDonald’s soda during questioning. When the boy left...

an elderly woman's hands
By Judith Graham, The New York Times | 02.20.2020

Do I know I’m at risk for developing dementia? You bet.

My father died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 72...

white baby crawling on a green background
By Dolli Player and Alicia Matsuura, The Daily Universe [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.18.2020

In the early 2000s, genome editing seemed like the answer to parents who carried latent genes that could result in...

human eggs
By Staff Reporter, BBC News | 02.17.2020

The fertility expert, Lord Robert Winston, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to discuss the campaign to relax the...

DNA gel test
By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal | 02.14.2020

Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children...

Magnifying glass looking at DNA
By Andrew Sheeler, The Sacramento Bee | 02.12.2020

A proposed California law would prohibit DNA testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe from sharing customer DNA information with outside...