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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...

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"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 Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.24.2018

Chinese researchers have finally figured out how to clone a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised to clone...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 01.24.2018

MOST PEOPLE USE Google's search-by-image featureto either look for copyright infringement, or for shopping. See some shoes you like on...

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By Lindsay King-Miller, Rewire | 01.24.2018

And how should parents—especially queer parents—manage their expectations around it?

My friend’s daughter Emma looks a lot like my daughter...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, New Scientist | 01.24.2018

Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...

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By Doree Shafrir, Buzzfeed | 01.23.2018

When my husband and I started trying to have a baby, part of us thought even if it took a...

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By Faye Flam, Bloomberg | 01.23.2018

It can feel shocking when someone disparages a golden person, thing or technology -- and in recent years, no emerging...

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By Hu Yuwei, Global Times | 01.22.2018

A Chinese woman surnamed Lin who paid 450,000 yuan ($69,200) for a baby delivered by a surrogate Cambodian mother now...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 01.22.2018

In the U.S., the first planned clinical trials of CRISPR gene editing in people are about to kick off...