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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...

By Katie McDonough, Salon | 10.04.2013

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that, while nominally banning abortions based on the sex...

By Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist | 10.04.2013
There’s a moment in the documentary film ‘It’s a Girl’ that is at once chilling and heart-rending.

A woman smiles...
By Dov Fox, Huffington Post | 10.04.2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) this week awarded a patent on "gamete donor selection" to 23andMe, the genetic...

By Osagie K. Obasagie, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Robert G. Edwards might not be a household name, but the innovation he pioneered along with Patrick Steptoe certainly is...

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 10.03.2013

Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with...

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 10.03.2013
What’s even more repulsive than the idea of using DNA tests to help people create a designer babies? Getting a...
By BBC, BBC News [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.03.2013

 

A US patent for a database that uses DNA testing to tell prospective parents which traits their future offspring...

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.03.2013

Has Google gone right off the deep end? It's common for techies to be infatuated with transhumanism and other far-out...