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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...

A traffic light appears yellow to signify caution (rather than a green go, and a red stop)
By Ekaterina Pesheva, Harvard Medical School [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.11.2017

In vitro fertilization has transformed reproductive medicine and sparked a number of therapeutic and diagnostic breakthroughs.

Now a new, still...

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By Dylan Scott, STAT | 01.09.2017

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has promised to change Washington, and he surely will. Yet while he may play some wild...

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By Jim Kozubek, Time, [cites CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.09.2017

CRISPR snips away risky genes—but even the bad have good in them

A young baby is fully dressed and sits in front of a laptop, interacting with the keyboard.
By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 01.08.2017

Comfortably seated in the fertility clinic with Vivaldi playing softly in the background, you and your partner are brought coffee...

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By Lindsay Murdoch, Sydney Morning Herald | 01.04.2017

Bangkok: A "human trafficking syndicate" has been hiring Filipino women to travel to Cambodia to carry surrogacy babies for foreigners...

A water droplet falls into a larger pool of liquid, leaving behind ripples to the surface.
By Michael Specter, New Yorker | 01.02.2017

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Hyannis*, bound for...

A wooden-like figure of a child builds a colorful tower of blocks. The child sits in a background surrounded by white and black checkered flooring.
By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 01.01.2017

The next year may represent our best chance to prevent the rise of a modern, uncontrolled and dangerously ill-considered techno-eugenics...

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By Jill Neimark, NPR | 01.01.2017

In September, reproductive endocrinologist John Zhang and his team at the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City captured...