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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 Staff, Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V. | 09.12.2022

Statement on the objectives and use of genetic data in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of DIW Berlin (German Institute for...

a person wearing a lab coat and blue gloves lowers a tube of gametes into a tank to be frozen
By Anna Louie Sussman, MIT Technology Review | 09.12.2022

USDA Gene Bank

Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. We—my dog Stewie and I—were in seat 8D, while...

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By Staff, BBC | 09.12.2022

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People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) are being sought to participate in the world's largest genetic study of...

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By Olive Heffernan, Scientific American | 09.12.2022

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After nearly two weeks of recent United Nations negotiations in New York City, countries from around...

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By Jennifer A. Doudna, The Atlantic | 09.12.2022

Two years ago, I was working on my laptop in an airport lounge in Newark, New Jersey, when I glanced...

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By Anna Leahy, The Washington Post | 09.09.2022

Vintage Press, book design by Debbie Glasserman

Alice Wong was born with muscular dystrophy, which hampered her ability to walk...

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By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.08.2022

A group of 56 international scientists and policy experts have published a statement opposing the use of the term “precision...