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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 06.08.2021

I've written a fair amount about egg donation over the years and have interviewed donors who travelled places to do...

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By Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 06.07.2021

Five  years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...

By Council of Europe, Press Statement | 06.04.2021

At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following...

a sequence of DNA base pair letters
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 06.04.2021

When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm...

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By Camisha Russell, Reproductive Biomedicine & Society | 06.02.2021

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The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political...

A person in a white lab coat pipettes liquid into test tubes
By Robert Klitzman, Bioethics.net | 06.02.2021

On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S...

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By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 06.01.2021

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he...

Blue DNA strand
By Matthew Herper, STAT | 06.01.2021

An international team of scientists says it has sequenced and assembled the entirety of the human genome, including parts that...