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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 John Edward Terrell, Sapiens | 08.23.2018

I have never understood why anybody would think humans are by nature violent, warlike creatures. True, we have all surely...

Blue double helix
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 08.21.2018

Scientists in the US may be out in front developing the next generation of Crispr-based genetic tools, but it’s China...

A bronze plaque describes the history of Shockley semiconductor lab
By Sam Harnett, The California Report | 08.21.2018

Last week, nearly 400 people crowded in front of 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View to commemorate what was...

Illustration of a DNA strand inside a syringe
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.15.2018

U.S. health officials are eliminating special regulations for gene therapy experiments, saying that what was once exotic science is quickly...

A cradle and a rocking chair occupy a baby room painted pink.
By Rebecca Gale, Dame [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.14.2018

In our on-demand era of reproductive liberty and technology, a child’s sex isn’t always left up to chance. As more...

Image of a scientist in a dark lab room cutting agarose gel used in electrophoresis.
By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 08.10.2018

In 1884, at the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, four million punters came to view the latest scientific...

Lab technician pipettes fluid into small flasks.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.08.2018

Facing criticism from fellow scientists, the researcher behind the world’s largest effort to edit human embryos with CRISPR is vowing...

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By Katie Hasson, GeneWatch | 08.06.2018

A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...

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