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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 Marsha Michie, Prenatal Information Research Consortium | 01.12.2018

Genome-wide sequencing is increasingly being conducted on fetal tissues, either as whole exome sequencing (WES), whole genome sequencing (WGS), or...

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By Carol Lynn Curchoe and Charles L. Bormann, Scientific American | 01.10.2018

Infertility treatment is an emotional and financial rollercoaster. For couples trying to conceive (“TTC” in the many on-line support forums)...

An empty doctors office, featuring a patient bed, a red chair, a hand sanitizer sipernser, and several instrumental tools on a wall.
By Nana Matoba, Scientific American | 01.10.2018

Dubbed “Snowbaby,” Emma Gibson is now more than a month old

Her birth made headlines globally recently as her 25-year-old...

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By Yon Sineat, Kong Meta and Erin Handley, Phnom Penh Post | 01.10.2018

Malis* sits under her home in a remote village with her legs folded under her swelling belly. She’s six months...

In a grass field, a brown and white cow stares. On its right ear, there is an identification tag.
By Andrew Rosenblum, MIT Technology Review | 01.10.2018

Gene editing can change an animal’s sex.

A graduate student was waiting for Alison Van Eenennaam in the doorway of...

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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 01.09.2018

During three emotional days of divorce talks, Drake and Mandy Rooks managed to agree on how to divide up almost...

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By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 01.08.2018

Researchers hoping to use a gene-editing technique to treat diseases may have to seek alternative enzymes.

The body’s own immune...

A spotlight illuminates a puzzle of a double helix that is being assembled, but with missing pieces that are staggered around its border.
By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 01.08.2018

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Monday announced a collaboration with rival drugmakers that will speed its effort to collect genetic information...