News

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...

By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 01.27.2014
On July 20, 2010, Andrew Alexander, founder and director of easyDNA, received a letter from the US Food and Drug...
By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 01.27.2014
SEQUENCING genomes has become easy. Understanding them remains incredibly hard. While the trickle of sequence information has turned into a...
By David DiSalvo, Forbes | 01.26.2014
By the middle of 2014, the prospect of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction...
By Benjamin Winterhalter, Salon | 01.26.2014

On Nov. 22, 2013, the FDA sent a now-infamous letter to the genetic research startup 23andMe, ordering the company to...

By David Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 01.26.2014
The state of California is preparing to make a bet of up to $40 million on a fast-moving field that...
By Steven Rose, TES | 01.24.2014

Genes, intelligence and education: a heady brew of issues. Add class, race or gender, as has happened so many times...

By Joseph Goldstein, New York Times | 01.24.2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has identified nearly 170 profiles that probably...
By Steve Fry, Topeka Capital-Journal | 01.23.2014
A Topeka man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is the presumptive father to a baby one of the...