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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 David Gilbert, Wired | 10.24.2024

AI-INFUSED SEARCH ENGINES from GoogleMicrosoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race...

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By Françoise Baylis and Katie Hasson, The Conversation | 10.24.2024

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...

DNA strand
By Walt Bogdanich and Carson Kessler, The New York Times | 10.23.2024

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the...

CRISPR editing on DNA strand
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.22.2024

In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, ...

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By Ruth Retassie, PET | 10.21.2024

Former IVF patients in the USA have filed class action lawsuits against several companies for misleading them about the efficacy...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.21.2024

Kendric Cromer, 12, left Children’s National Hospital in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a T-shirt and cap printed with designs...

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By Nila Bala, Los Angeles Times | 10.21.2024

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent...

DNA on Money
By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.19.2024

A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for...