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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 newborn baby gazes at the viewer while lying down on a blanket.
By Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen | 06.09.2018

Erin Jackson did not learn that her biological father was a sperm donor until she was 35. Until then, her...

Close up of the face of a brown macaque monkey looking into the distance against a white background.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 06.08.2018

Guoping Feng applied to college the first year that Chinese universities reopened after the Cultural Revolution. It was 1977, and more...

An artist's rendition of multicolored DNA strands forming a circular, mandala-like spiral.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 06.07.2018

The first thing many people notice about Feng Zhang—nearly every article written about him acknowledges it—is his relative youth. At...

Zoomed into the edge of a brown conference table. Black chairs flank the table and notepads and pencils lie on top.
By Eric Smalley, Nature Biotechnology | 06.06.2018
Researchers are using a pair of initiatives, launched within a...
A gloved hand examines a blue tray of red and green DNA test results.
By Angela Chen, The Verge | 06.06.2018

This week, DNA testing service MyHeritage revealed that hackers had breached 92 million of its accounts. Though the hackers...

A key is inserted into a gold padlock against a white background.
By Kat McGowan, Mother Jones | 06.06.2018

Barbara Zeughauser had lost so many relatives to cancer: Her mother, her uncle, her grandmother, her second cousin. She thought...

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.06.2018

In a clinic on a side street in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, doctors are doing something that, as far...

Black and white photo of an old hospital room.
By Robert A. Wilson, Aeon | 06.05.2018

Eugenics was a mixture of science and social movement that aimed to improve the human race over generations. Those of...