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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...

An eight-cell embryo
By Henry Zwartz, ABC News | 12.20.2017

A central Tasmanian sperm and egg donor register is being recommended after a parliamentary committee heard of the "distress and...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 12.20.2017

Genetic engineering offers the promise of treating genetic disorders by correcting disease-causing DNA, but when the defective genes are located...

Close up of a mouse
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.20.2017

Scientists have now edited genes inside mice to prevent a form of inherited deafness.

While cautioning that much more research...

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stands behind a podium
By Laurie McGinley, Washington Post | 12.19.2017

In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a pioneering gene therapy for a rare form...

Wall display featuring large letters of ATCG in various colors. Behind, they are illuminated by a light.
By Nikhil Reddy, Huffington Post | 12.18.2017

Imagine you’re having a child in the near future, and with the vast trove of gene-editing technologies that have surfaced...

Two women are pictured holding a protest sign stating, "The future is feminist"
By Francine Coeytaux, Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, and Emily Galpern, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog | 12.18.2017

This commentary was originally published on the IJFAB Blog.

For more than a decade, Canadian regulation has explicitly countered...

A bent golden pocket watch rests on a stack of US dollar bills.
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.14.2017

Directors of the California stem cell agency today virtually endorsed a plan to stave off its financial death, pinning their...

Gray scale photo of a pregnant stomach. Two hands hold the belly along the top and bottom. The belly appears cracked.
By Clare Goldwin, Daily Mail | 12.13.2017

It can give couples babies they so longed for but, as Justine and many others have found, the strain of...