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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...

Chinese flag blowing in the wind
By Javier Hernandez, The New York Times | 04.11.2018

BEIJING — The advertisement for sperm donors was exacting.

No bald men. No hereditary diseases like color blindness. And in...

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By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 04.11.2018

Sometime this year, people in the US and Europe will start getting treated for diseases using the gene-editing tool CRISPR...

dragon
By David Ewing Duncan, Neo.life | 04.05.2018

Drew Endy almost can’t talk fast enough to convey everything he has to say. It’s a wonderfully complex message filled...

4 open micro-centrifuge tubes being filled by pipet with DNA.
By Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post | 04.03.2018

Julie Kennerly-Shah and Summit Shah were dating back in 2016 when they decided to buy kits from 23andMe, the popular...

Arrow hitting target
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.02.2018

BIOTECH HAS BEEN betting big on Crispr, the gene-editing technique that promises to snip away some of humanity’s worst diseases. But...

A pair of white baby size shoes on top of a white calendar with the words "Due Date" circled in blue pen.
By Françoise Baylis and Alana Cattapan, The Conversation | 04.02.2018

In Canada, it’s illegal to pay for the services of a surrogate mother or to purchase human gametes — sperm...

Strand of yellow DNA with two wrenches unscrewing bolts on the DNA with the word "CRISPr" on it
By Text: Sharon Begley Video: Retro Report, STAT | 04.02.2018

Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. And those who do not remember the sometimes...

A mannequin of a human with DNA nucleotides (A, G, T, C) sequenced across it's body.
By Alan Goodman, Marcy Darnovsky, et. al., New York Times | 04.02.2018

To the Editor:

In “‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...