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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...

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By Claudia Geib, Futurism [cites CGS] | 04.16.2018

If sci-fi writers of the past somehow visited us today, they might wonder: where are all the clones?

As recently...

Brown mouse
By Ashley Yeager, The Scientist | 04.16.2018

Mouse brains make nice homes for human brain organoids, researchers report today (April 16) in Nature Biotechnology.

Brain organoids...

Black and white ultrasound image with a small fetus in the middle
By Chris Kaposy, New York Times | 04.16.2018

My wife’s ultrasound turned up something abnormal in the baby’s heart — an otherwise innocuous feature that correlates with genetic...

5 Individuals are sitting around a white coach work space all engaging in conversation.
By Natasha Singer, New York Times | 04.15.2018

Levi Strauss & Company introduced a novel benefit for employees at its San Francisco headquarters last fall: free genetic screening...

IVF
By Alex Matthews-King, The Independent | 04.13.2018

People hoping to be parents in the UK are being sold “false hope” by foreign IVF clinics claiming success rates...

Chinese newborn baby in hospital
By Christina Zhao, Newsweek | 04.12.2018

A Chinese baby was born by a surrogate mother four years after his parents were killed in a car accident.

Parents...

Newborn baby crying in hospital
By Tracy Samilton, Michigan Radio | 04.12.2018

Saginaw attorney Philip Ellison has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nine parents whose infants' blood was taken and...

A stack of 3 US dollar bills. The top bill is a $1, then $20, and then another $1.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.12.2018

An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question this week about gene therapy.

“Is curing patients a sustainable business...