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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...

Photograph of Stephen Quake sitting
By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 04.14.2019

PALO ALTO, Calif. — “Success!” read the subject line of the email. The text, in imperfect English, began: “Good News...

Dollar bill with DNA in the middle
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.12.2019

THE UK BIOBANK is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half...

A colorful image of a fertilized egg.
By Muri Assuncao, Daily News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2019

Oh baby!

A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Editor, ReproTech Truths | 04.10.2019

In the last few years, ASRM has aggressively courted RESOLVE, once a purely grassroots group of women helping women get...

Woman looking and pointing at phone
By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post | 04.10.2019

Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to...

Black and white depiction of evolution, from primates to humans
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2019

Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of...

Two 23andMe at-home DNA testing kits
By Peter Aldhous, Buzzfeed | 04.09.2019

A year ago, when cops captured Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer, the world woke up...

Stem cell injection needle
By Chia-Yi Hou, The Scientist | 04.08.2019

Last week marked a flurry of activity to rein in activities by stem cell clinics that give customers unproven interventions...