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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 black and white illustration shows Dr. Frankenstein in a lab with a partially assembled skeleton on the table
By Andrew Smith, The Guardian | 08.30.2018

The 18th of March 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added...

Sign at the March for Science reads "Science Makes America Great"
By Rebecca Onion, Slate | 08.29.2018

Advocates of science are in a bad place right now. Some days, in this Second Year of Trump, scientism—a blanket...

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By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 08.29.2018

Jeff Johnson is 40 years old, and for all 40 of those years, he has been living with hemophilia. The...

Four eggs in a shallow wicker basket
By Judy Norsigian & Dr. Gary Richwald, Golden Gate Xpress | 08.29.2018

An April 25th article in the Golden Gate Xpress about donating eggs raises important issues for young women considering this...

A partially completed jigsaw puzzle of light blue dna strands on a dark blue background
By Rick Mullin, Chemical and Engineering News | 08.27.2018

In 2015, Jennifer Doudna, codeveloper of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, convened a meeting in Napa, Calif., aimed at setting the...

A row of tall cactuses behind a sign reading "University of Arizona"
By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | 08.24.2018

The University of Arizona has accepted years of funding from a foundation infamous for promoting research linking race and intelligence...

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By Vardit Ravitsky and Sarah Kimmins, The Globe and Mail | 08.24.2018

Vardit Ravitsky is an associate professor of bioethics at the University of Montreal.

Sarah Kimmins is an associate professor at...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report [cites CGS' Pete Shanks] | 08.23.2018

California's $3 billion stem cell experiment received a host of accolades last week at a state legislative hearing, but one...

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