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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 Katie Hasson and Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 11.27.2018

The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...

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By Lauran Neergaard and Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press | 11.26.2018

Designer babies might be here sooner than anyone reckoned. A Chinese researcher who says he created gene-edited babies crossed what...

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By Sharon Begley, STAT | 11.26.2018

HONG KONG — A Chinese scientist’s claim that he used the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the DNA of...

A scientific illustration of the HIV-1 virus and the CCR5 gene.
By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 11.26.2018

HIV researchers are incensed that the first reported use of gene editing in human embryos was aimed at conferring HIV...

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By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.26.2018

A Chinese scientist's claim that he edited DNA in embryos that developed into twin baby girls has set off a...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.26.2018

Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the...

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By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.26.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2018

When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global...