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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...

He Jiankui wearing blue shirt
By Jon Cohen, Science | 08.01.2019

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

Jeffrey Epstein
By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times | 07.31.2019

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.30.2019

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...

image of blood cells with sickle cell disease
By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.29.2019

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...

By Walter Isaacson, Air Mail | 07.27.2019

QUEBEC CITY

Biology is the new tech. I’m at a conference in Quebec City on CRISPR, the molecular tool designed...

Photo of a human embryo
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.26.2019

A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and...

State of Georgia depicted in rainbow colors
By The Associated Press, NBC News | 07.24.2019

A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to...

By Jonathan Lambert, Nature | 07.24.2019

Advocates for stem-cell research in California are pushing ahead with a plan to save the struggling state-funded California Institute for...