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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...

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By Madeline Roache, Al Jazeera | 09.13.2019

Throughout Ukraine, advertisements about becoming a surrogate mother are plastered on buses and throughout the metro.

They ask: "Аre...

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By Lisa Ikemoto and Diane Tober, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.12.2019

For a list of organizations opposing AB922, including reproductive justice, women’s health, LGBTQ rights, and other public interest organizations, see this fact...

A gloved hand drops material to a vial labeled CRISPR
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 09.11.2019

An HIV-positive man in China is doing well after receiving infusions of donor cells whose genes were edited with CRISPR...

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By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg Business Week | 09.11.2019

About three years ago, Orig3n Inc., a small genetic testing company in Boston, discovered a big problem with its DNA...

dozens of human sperm swimming
By Meghana Keshavan, STAT | 09.11.2019

For generations, it was a basic tenet of donating sperm: Clinics could forever protect their clients’ identities.

But, increasingly, donor...

embryos on a monitor next to a large microscope
By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.11.2019

Scientists have invented a device that can quickly produce large numbers of living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2019

Backers of a California ballot initiative to provide $5.5 billion more for the state's cash-strapped stem cell agency say they...

medical professionals with blue gloved hands exchange surgical instrument
By Ankita Rao, VICE | 09.09.2019

Content Warning: This story contains sensitive details about reproductive violence.

S.A.T.* wanted her daughter in the room.

It was the...