News

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...

masked researcher handles genetic material in a pipette
By Andy Heil, Radio Free Europe | 10.26.2019

Moscow biologist and DNA specialist Denis Rebrikov has spent much of the past year kicking a scientific and ethical hornet's...

Early stage human embryo under a microscope
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 10.24.2019

Two years ago, news headlines began to appear about a development that made many human geneticists uneasy. A U.S. company...

Double helix severed in two places
By Jon Cohen, Science | 10.21.2019

CRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and...

needle penetrating a cluster of blue cells
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 10.18.2019

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women who can hear to learn how to...

Photo of the Russian flag and a blue sky with clouds
By Olga Dobrovidova, STAT | 10.16.2019

MOSCOW — Russian health officials are playing down international concerns that a Moscow researcher plans to create gene-edited babies any...

World map with a blue arrow indicating a market increase
By Alison Motluk, Hey Reprotech! | 10.15.2019

Sometimes when I'm bored, I find myself Googling things like "value of global fertility services market 2019." 

The estimates that...

Gloved hand drops liquid into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Tina Rulli, STAT | 10.15.2019

The startling announcement by He Jiankui almost one year ago that he had created the first genetically modified human beings...

abstract image of circles in blue, pink, and green
By Emily Mullin, Medium One Zero [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.15.2019

An experimental and much-hyped reproductive procedure that mixes DNA from three people is not effective at boosting the chances of...