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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...

Chromosome being unwound
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2018

DNA is the code of life, and so advances that allow us to edit that code have unlocked vast potential...

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By Amy Packham, Huffington Post | 03.14.2018

Male infertility is the most common reason couples in the UK have IVF treatment, official UK data has revealed. 

The most...

Josiah Zayner
By Alex Lash, Xconomy [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2018

Gene editing has arrived. Of the various forms of the technology, CRISPR-Cas9 is the easiest to use, and it’s already...

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By Amy Goldstein and Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 03.12.2018

An Ohio couple who lost both their frozen embryos when a fertility clinic's storage tank overheated last week are the...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2018

The home page of the Minnesota biotech company Recombinetics shouts “The Gene Editing Revolution Is Here.” 

Or it would be, if only...

Scientist pipetting into plate
By Mary Warnock, The Guardian | 03.11.2018

The Royal Society has recently published the results of an extensive survey of the attitudes of the general public to...

Women operating machinery at a fertility clinic
By Amy Goldstein , Washington Post | 03.11.2018

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic experienced a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank holding thousands of frozen eggs...

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By Joyce Bichler, Breast Cancer Action | 03.07.2018

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved an at-home genetic testing kit without a doctor’s...