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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...

human eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech! | 08.27.2019

Ten years ago, if you were a woman who had donated eggs, there was a good chance you'd never met...

black and white cow with yellow tags in its ears
By Megan Molteni, WIRED | 08.26.2019

Up until a few months ago, Brazil was all set to create the country’s first herd of genetically dehorned dairy...

track star Usain Bolt holds up a flag after winning a race
By Catherine Taylor, ABC News Australia | 08.24.2019

It's a scene straight out of Gattaca — the 1997 futuristic film in which eugenics is used to breed and...

gloved hand adding pipetting material into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Laura Hercher, The Nation | 08.23.2019

Call it the “ick” factor.

Stories like the 2018 bombshell out of China, of a scientist manipulating embryonic DNA...

close-up image of researcher in a lab
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.23.2019

Proponents of a proposed law allowing women to be paid to donate their eggs for research say it’s all about...

human sperm surrounding an ovum
By Rob Stein, NPR | 08.22.2019

First it was human embryos. Now scientists are trying to develop another way to modify human DNA that can be...

By Traci Bowden, ABC News Australia | 08.21.2019

Two couples who had children through surrogates in Ukraine are warning prospective parents to do their research thoroughly before choosing...

human sperm swimming
By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 08.21.2019

Growing up in Nacogdoches, Tex., Eve Wiley learned at age 16 that she had been conceived through artificial insemination with...