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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...

Gloved hands putting pipet into test tubes
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 10.11.2018

Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year...

Six steps of cell division
By Nishakanthi Gopalan et al., Biotechnology Law Report | 10.09.2018

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Stem cell (SC) technology has spurred many debates among experts which highlight both the deficiency of current regulation and...

Brown mouse standing on a white background
By Sharon Begley, Stat | 10.08.2018

Nearly 40 years after surgeons first operated on fetuses to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward...

Different colored test tubes with double stranded DNA inside
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 10.08.2018

People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming...

Newborn baby lying on white towel on blue hospital bed
By Steph Yin, The New York Times | 10.05.2018

Lamb stew, hearty and fragrant, cooked until meat falls off the bone and served alongside thick, chewy noodles — this...

Black cricket standing on dirt/gravel
By Emily Baumgaertner | 10.04.2018

Within the Defense Department, one agency’s recent project sounds futuristic: millions of insects carrying viruses descend upon crops and then...

Human embryo on blue background
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 10.03.2018

Japan has issued draft guidelines that allow the use of gene-editing tools in human embryos. The proposal was released by...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Pamela Tsigdinos, Marie Claire | 10.01.2018

Shortly after her 40th birthday, Sarah Chamberlin and her husband Julio interviewed reproductive endocrinologists at four different clinics in...