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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...

Genome
By Alissa Greenberg, NOVA | 09.11.2020

When scientists set out to sequence the entire human genome in 1990, it was considered an undertaking on par with...

Stem cell division
By The Editorial Board, The Press Democrat | 09.09.2020

In 2004, California voters agreed to borrow $3 billion to bankroll a stem-cell research program dedicated to seeking cures for...

Nuffeild council on bioethics
By Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 09.08.2020

The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the...

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 09.08.2020

Poor laboratory practices at a Boston company that performed Covid-19 tests for dozens of nursing homes in Massachusetts put patients...

Hand dropping ballot
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Project | 09.08.2020

California's 21 million voters soon will be receiving mail that tells them a $5.5 billion stem cell ballot measure is...

Book cover
By Alondra Nelson, Nature | 09.07.2020

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (or Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford, The...

coronavirus
By Deirdre Shesgreen, USA Today | 09.06.2020

COVID-19 test results come back within 24 hours – or even faster. Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists...

Human genome
By Josephine Johston, STAT | 09.04.2020

Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on...