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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...

Gloved hand drops liquid into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Merrit Kennedy, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.30.2019

A Chinese scientist who shocked the medical community last year when he said he had illegally created the world's first...

He Jiankui wearing blue shirt
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 12.30.2019

A court in China on Monday sentenced He Jiankui, the researcher who shocked the global scientific community when he claimed...

human egg under a microscope
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, The New York Times | 12.21.2019

The potential for egg freezing to allow women to pause their biological clocks is one of the most astonishing developments...

armadillo
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 12.20.2019

One of the armadillo quadruplets runs away when she hears Amanda Withnell approaching; her three siblings calmly keep their faces...

A doctor holding a clipboard goes over test results with a patient. Only their hands are shown.
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 12.20.2019

When she was in her early 30s, Katy Mathes decided to check her cancer risk. A genetic test showed a...

four baby piglets sleeping
By Kelly Servick, Science | 12.19.2019

If any swine is fit to be an organ donor for people, then the dozens of pigs snuffling around Qihan...

By Nila Bala, SLATE | 12.19.2019

On Dec. 9, Verogen, a California-based forensic genomics company, acquired GEDmatch, a user-sourced DNA genealogy site. The acquisition suggests that...

By Anis Chowdhury, The Financial Express [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.13.2019

At the start of this year (February 06, 2019), The New York Times published Farhad Manjoo's passionate opinion piece, "Abolish...