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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...

Canadian flag flies against the winter air.
By Yvonne Bombard, Ronald Cohn & Stephen Scherer, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 09.19.2016

Canada is close to catching up with other Western countries in protecting the most fundamental of information: our genetic code...

Darkened image of a pregnant woman's torso, showing only a side view of her stomach. She is holding the bottom of her stomach.
By Julie McCarthy, NPR | 09.18.2016

Isha Devi hails from Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, built by a grieving king for a beloved queen. Isha...

Illustrated picture of a patient inside of a doctor's office.
By Michael Cook, BioEdge [citing CGS' Elliot Hosman] | 09.16.2016

This chirpy video about genetic engineering explains the complex present and speculative future quite well although it probably takes too...

Three wine glasses are pictured. One glass has a red liquid, another has a blue liquid. The final glass picture has a clear transparency, which displays the red and blue glasses through it.
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.16.2016

The disappointing results of clinical trials will no longer be able to languish unpublished, thanks to rules released on 16...

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By Gretchen Vogel, Science Magazine | 09.14.2016

No, scientists have not figured out how to make “motherless babies,” nor have they gotten any closer to making an...

Illustrated painting of the torso of a doctor in a white coat, holding their hand up as a gesture of silence or omniscient authority.
By Shena Cavallo, openDemocracy | 09.12.2016

Under Fujimori, thousands of indigenous women and men were sterilized against their will. Today, activists and organizations keep on fighting

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The planet Earth
By Brooke Borel, The Atlantic | 09.12.2016

In a crowded auditorium at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in August, Philipp Messer, a population geneticist at...

Illustrated image of shackled hands. Inside the hands lie words of systemic social injustice, such as "classism" and "racism."
By Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica | 09.12.2016

The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police...