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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...

A Chinese man in a blue shirt (Dr. He Jiankui)
By Nature Editorial Board, Nature | 11.20.2019

A year ago this week, geneticist He Jiankui made the shocking announcement of the birth of twin girls in China...

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By Daniela Wei, K Oanh Ha, and Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.19.2019

Months after his daughter’s birth in 2017, Chris Jung dropped off a test-tube of her saliva to his company’s genetic...

a little person shakes hands with a politician
By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.18.2019

Scientists have come up with a drug, injected once a day, that appears to make children’s bones grow. To many...

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By Hidde Boersma and Joost Bastmeijer, The Guardian | 11.18.2019

At 6:30 am five-year-old Osman Balama and his mother reach the state hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest city in Burkina...

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By Kristin Houser, Futurism | 11.11.2019

With just a single warrant, a Florida detective obtained access to the DNA profiles of more than a million people...

gloved hand drops liquid into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Jonathan R. Latham, Salon | 11.10.2019

The opening scene of "Unnatural Selection," a four-part docuseries released recently from Netflix, depicts scientist Jennifer Doudna showing off a...

Poster for ANYA
By Victoria Turner, Synapse [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.08.2019

In 2018, the story broke of a Chinese researcher who had made real-life use of CRISPR to edit two human...

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By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.08.2019

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has reaffirmed his support for a moratorium on...