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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...

Ban On Genetically Modified Babies
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.04.2019

A congressional committee voted Tuesday to continue a federal ban on creating genetically modified babies in the United States.

The...

Baby having its heartbeat checked by a doctor
By Rob Stein, National Public Radio | 06.03.2019

There are new concerns about the world's first genetically modified babies.

It appears that the genetic variation a Chinese scientist...

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By Rachel Adams, The Conversation | 05.29.2019

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 05.29.2019

Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...

He Jiankui speaks during the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28, 2018.
By Sharon Begley, STAT News | 05.28.2019

The condemnation of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genome-edited babies last year was far from universal: A...

Embryo selection for IVF
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.24.2019

Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a...

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By Staff Writer, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.22.2019

The U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the Royal Society of the...

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By Editorial Board, The Washington Post | 05.21.2019

WHEN CHINESE scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live...