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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...

A close-up on a hand with a pen writing on pieces of paper on a desk.
By Marcy Darnovsky, Boston Review | 11.19.2018

In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...

street signs reading "Success Ln" and "Failure Dr"
By Jacob Ward, The New York Times Magazine | 11.16.2018

In 1999, a trio of economists emerged from a conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, squinting without sunglasses...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Matthew Weaver, The Guardian | 11.12.2018

IVF clinics have been putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive treatment add-ons that have no proven...

Mosquito on skin
By Briefing, The Economist | 11.08.2018

“I think I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to...

Newborn baby lying on white towel
By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 11.06.2018

Millions of amateur genealogists assembling family trees on Ancestry.com probably figure they’re just finding lost relatives and assessing their genetic...

White pencil made out of a strand of DNA, on a blue background
By Yeyang Su, Impact Ethics [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.03.2018

At the end of this month, the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in Hong Kong...

Person coming out of double helix DNA strand
By Debra Bruno, The Washington Post | 11.03.2018

The other day, Ancestry.com told me that my mother was my mother.

Phew.

I was starting to wonder about some...

Underwater coral reef
By Yale University, Phys | 11.01.2018

In Burkina Faso, the government is considering the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate malaria. In Nantucket, Mass., officials...