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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...

Researcher extracts DNA from a test tube using a micropipette.
By Sarah Russo, The Technoskeptic [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.11.2018

Genetic Testing Kits: Fueling a Historical Discrimination Bias?
The diversity of snowflakes is a great analogy to that of the...

Tray of test tubes with purple caps.
By Liz Connor, Irish News | 07.11.2018

It's been four decades since Louise Brown became the first human to be been born after conception by IVF, and...

Newborn baby lies on hospital bed and stretches arms upwards.
By Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic | 07.09.2018

Sperm donation offers a tidy solution to an aggravating problem: When a person or a couple wants a baby and...

Beige conference room surrounded by glass windows.
By Douglas Rushkoff, Medium | 07.05.2018

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed...

A laboratory technician handles capped test tubes while wearing safety gear and gloves.
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.02.2018

Dr. Joshua Clayton, a 29-year-old radiology resident at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, wanted to learn about his ancestry...

Up close shot of an officer handcuffing a person under arrest..
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 06.27.2018

When the Golden State Killer case was cracked in April with the help of a genealogist and an open-source ancestry...

Image is of a well-lit, sterile medical operating room.
By Katherine Drabiak, Washington Post | 06.25.2018

The Food and Drug Administration not long ago announced its authorization that permits genetics testing company 23andMe to market a...

Illustration of a map of U.S.-Mexico border along the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 06.22.2018

In the unfolding family separation crisis at the US-Mexico border, one thing has become increasingly clear; the federal government lacks...