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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...

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By Rob Stein, National Public Radio [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

A Chinese scientist's claims that he created the world's first gene-edited babies is a "deeply disturbing" and "irresponsible" violation of...

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By Dennis Normile, Science [cites CGS] | 11.29.2018

HONG KONG, CHINA—An international conference on human gene editing dominated by news of the birth of the world's first...

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By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.28.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher who claims to have helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies says...

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By Anna Louie Sussman, The Guardian | 11.28.2018

In 2016, after seven years trying to conceive, New York state assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte was pregnant with twins...

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By Michael Krasny, KQED [features CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.28.2018

A scientist in China announced this week that he had created the world's first genetically-edited human babies. In an announcement...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 11.27.2018

We said “don’t freak out,” when scientists first used Crispr to edit DNA in non-viable human embryos. When...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.27.2018

Who has the authority to say yes or no to gene-modified babies?

In the mind of He Jiankui, the answer...

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By Eric J. Topol, The New York Times | 11.27.2018

Sooner or later it was bound to happen: A rogue scientist in China claims to have edited a gene in...