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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 Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 09.30.2016

From designer babies to engineered mosquitoes, advances in genome-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 have raised the possibility of tremendous scientific...

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By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 09.30.2016

For the first time in almost 25 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pay for In Vitro Fertilization...

Black book titled "Eugenics"
By Marina Fang & JM Rieger, The Huffington Post | 09.28.2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in...

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By Maggie Fox, NBC News [citing CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.28.2016

A healthy baby boy has been born after he was conceived using a "three-parent" technique to manipulate his DNA, doctors...

A mastiff dog poses lying down on its stomach,with reading glasses on its face, and a book at its side.
By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion | 09.28.2016

It was after a home invasion almost a decade ago that David Ishee first got interested in breeding dogs. A...

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By Selena Larson, CNNMoney | 09.28.2016

Picking a sperm donor is now like picking a partner for people in the UK.

The London Sperm Bank's new...

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By Emily Willingham, Forbes [citing CGS] | 09.28.2016

A U.S. fertility specialist, foiled by U.S. regulations, took his tools to Mexico to tweak human cells into developing into...

Dr. John Zhang, New Hope Fertility Center (New York City).
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.28.2016

A reported world-first in fertility therapy — a baby boy conceived using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three...