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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 pregnant woman in a pink dress holds her stomach.
By Elizabeth Katkin, Marie Claire | 06.15.2018

After six miscarriages, six fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles, two frozen IVF cycles, and one healthy not yet two-year-old...

Close up photograph of a white "delete" key from an Apple computer.
By Kristen V. Brown, Bloomberg | 06.15.2018

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In the name of journalism, I have spit into a lot of test tubes.

I’ve sent samples...

Close up of a light brown chihuahua's head gazing at the camera against a grey background.
By CBC Canada, CBC News | 06.14.2018

A suspected Indian status scam that told a man he shared genetic ancestry with a dog should serve as a reminder...

Blue-tinted image of a human oocyte pierced by a needle.
By John D. Loike and Alan Kadish, The Scientist [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.14.2018

On June 7, news reports emerged that Valery Zukin, director of Nadiya Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Ukraine...

Microscope image of one human stem cell. Dark blue.
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 06.12.2018

Human cells resist gene editing by turning on defenses against cancer, ceasing reproduction and sometimes dying, two teams of scientists...

A close up of the face of a Rottweiler smiling with its tongue out against a background of green grass.
By David Lazarus, The Los Angeles Times [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.12.2018

A DNA test found that I’m 72.3% of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, thanks to ancestors from Ukraine. I expected as much...

Microscope image of purple cells displaying prostate cancer.
By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 06.11.2018

Editing cells’ genomes with CRISPR-Cas9 might increase the risk that the altered cells, intended to treat disease, will trigger cancer, two studies...

A male baby rests his arms on the top of an outdoor bench and looks into the distance.
By Clyde Haberman, The New York Times [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.10.2018

For nine frustrating years, Lesley and John Brown tried to conceive a child but failed because of her blocked fallopian...