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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...

doctor explaining something to a couple
By Ari Berkowitz, The Conversation | 02.11.2020

An emergency room physician, initially unable to diagnose a disoriented patient, finds on the patient a wallet-sized card providing access...

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By Jonathan Shieber, TechCrunch | 02.11.2020

A state senator in California is introducing legislation designed to provide more oversight over direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies.

The new...

latex gloves and a home DNA test swab and vial
By David Lazarus , Los Angeles Times [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.10.2020

These have been rough days for the DNA-testing business — an industry that sprang up seemingly overnight with promises of...

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By Sophie Wilkinson, The Huffington Post UK | 02.08.2020

“I was in excruciating pain, I was bloated and felt really sick. The doctor had said I’d be able to...

Strands of DNA being edited by CRISPR
By Megan Molteni, WIRED | 02.06.2020

It’s been over three years since US regulators greenlit the nation’s first in-human test of Crispr’s disease-fighting potential, more than...

a red Petri dish with a cotton swab rests on paper with GATC printed on it in multiple colors
By Matthew Haag, The New York Times | 02.04.2020

The president of FamilyTreeDNA, one of the country’s largest at-home genetic testing companies, has apologized to its users for failing...

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By Roberto Andorno, Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Donna Dickenson, Hille Haker, Katie Hasson, Leah Lowthorp, et al., Trends in Biotechnology | 01.31.2020

Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture

The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...

Gloved hands injects stems cells into a knee draped in blue medical sheeting
By Laura Beil, ScienceNews | 01.30.2020

Joanna had just turned 62 when she noticed that she couldn’t stand very long before her right leg would hurt...