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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 Pete Shanks, Medium | 02.02.2018

Let’s Not Distort Debates about Human Cloning and Heritable Gene Editing

Cloning is back in the headlines. Researchers managed to...

Pregnant woman holding her stomach
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 02.01.2018

Doctors in Newcastle have been granted permission to create Britain’s first “three-person babies” for two women who are at risk...

Scientist using pipette in a green solution.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.31.2018

Toxic effects seen in animals raise questions about new gene therapies for children.

An influential scientist involved in gene therapy’s...

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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 01.27.2018

Brigitte Adams caused a sensation four years ago when she appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek under the headline...

Black and white photo of the palm of an adult's hands  holding a newborn's feet.
By Leila Fadel, NPR | 01.26.2018

Aiden and Ethan Dvash-Banks share pretty much everything. The 16-month-old twins were born four minutes apart, from the same womb...

A black woman kisses a young black girl with joy and love expressed on their faces. In the background, there is a city back drop with other people walking on the sidewalk is featured, but out of focus and blurred.
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times | 01.25.2018

For centuries, people have drawn the line between nature and nurture.

In the nineteenth century, the English polymath Francis Galton...

Macaque monkey eating
By Jim Axelrod, CBS News [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

There has been a big scientific breakthrough that may bring the world one step closer to cloning humans. Two female...

By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing...