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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 Fetus at Nine Weeks
By Oscar Schwartz, OneZero | 07.09.2019

For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable...

By Staff Writer, CBS Los Angeles [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.09.2019

An unidentified New York couple is suing a Los Angeles fertility clinic after they claim the woman gave birth to...

Photo of Françoise Balis
By Gemma Buck, National Post | 07.08.2019

Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance...

Blue stylized images of DNA
By Isabelle Altman, The Dispatch [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.06.2019

A strand of DNA analyzed in a rape kit from 1990 was the key piece of evidence in Starkville Police...

A nurse checking a baby's hearing
By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 07.04.2019

Five Russian couples who are deaf want to try the CRISPR gene-editing technique so they can have a biological child...

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By Naomi Schalit, The Conversation | 07.04.2019

Last week I read an article about CRISPR, the latest tool scientists are using to edit DNA. It was a...

DNA body strand with blue background
By David Lazarus , Los Angeles Times | 07.02.2019

Home DNA testing can be fun. I’ve done it for myself and for my dog. One of us unexpectedly turned...

HIV infected T cell
By Alice Park , Time | 07.02.2019

There’s no question that powerful anti-HIV medications can do a fairly good job of keeping the virus under control. Used...