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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 lab technician places oocyte vials in storage compartment.
By Peter Goffin, The Globe and Mail | 07.22.2018

A lawsuit filed by a Toronto woman against a fertility clinic that she claims was responsible for the loss of...

Image of goup of people waving pride flag and Israeli flag.
By David Kaufman, Quartz | 07.20.2018

Major strikes are planned across Israel this Sunday (July 22) to protest a new law that essentially excludes LGBT couples...

Image of a recently fertilized egg with few cells.
By Richard Hayes, Financial Times | 07.18.2018

The Nuffield Council’s approval of the creation of genetically modified children is inexcusable (“ Human gene editing morally permissible, says...

Suburban neighborhood on a sunny day with blue skies in the background.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 07.17.2018

It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair.

For her part, St...

Pipetting fluid into clear test tubes held in a blue container.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.17.2018

The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances...

3 different color cartoon drawing of DNA--blue, green, and orange--on a yellow background.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 07.17.2018

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...

Stained pink/purple tumor cells under a microscope.
By Sharon Begley, Stat | 07.16.2018

From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits...

DIgital illustration of dna in vials of different colors.
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 07.14.2018

Late last year, Justina Crawford decided to swab the inside of her mouth for a saliva sample to do a...