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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...

An image of an ICE officer facing away from the camera. The uniform okn the officer's back reads "POLICE / ICE."
By Tonya Riley, Mother Jones [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2018

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the...

Photograph of the Mexican-U.S. border at Nopales showing fence and cities on either side.
By Russell Brandom and Rachel Becker, The Verge | 06.22.2018

More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the US border as a result of the White...

Close up of a baby's eyes staring into the distance.
By Kurt Pitzer, People [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.21.2018

A Ukrainian doctor is creating genetically modified “three-parent” babies in an effort to give infertile women a chance to bear...

West front of the United States Capitol, with the Senate chamber on the left, and the House on the right.
By Megan Thielking, Stat News | 06.21.2018

Pressure is growing on direct-to-consumer genealogy and genetic testing companies to be more transparent about their privacy policies, after the...

Image of a woodland mosquito resting on a leaf.
By Rowan Jacobson, Pacific Standard | 06.20.2018

In a windowless London basement, behind three sets of locked steel doors and a wall of glass, thousands of Anopheles...

Illustration of a neanderthal skull.
By Jon Cohen, Science | 06.20.2018

Until now, researchers wanting to understand the Neanderthal brain and how it differed from our own had to study a...

Photograph of an empty doctor's office.
By Priyanka Vora, Scroll.in | 06.20.2018

Last year, shortly after she had donated her eggs for the eighth time since 2009, Shabana Memon* resolved never to...

Lonely road stretching into the distance with the U.S. Mexico border wall flanking it.
By Ian MacDougall, ProPublica | 06.19.2018

Amid a bipartisan backlash, President Trump has tried repeatedly to shift blame to Democrats for his own administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration...