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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...

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By William Wan and Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 09.06.2019

Responding to ubiquitous online marketing by stem cell clinics selling unapproved treatments for everything from achy joints to Alzheimer’s, Google...

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By Belinda Martineau, Biotech Salon | 09.06.2019

UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do...

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By Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune | 09.05.2019

In your book Biotech Juggernaut, Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience co-authored with Tina Stevens, you draw attention...

a rainbow dna helix
By Philip Ball, Prospect | 09.04.2019

Some people once felt that the reason to look for a “gay gene” was so that it could be eliminated...

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By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.04.2019

China’s first duplicate cat marks the country’s emergence in gene research and its entry in a potentially lucrative and unregulated...

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By Andrew Solomon, The New York Times | 09.02.2019

The eugenic movement spearheaded by Francis Galton in England in the late Victorian period reached a culmination in the view...

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By Alex Pearlman, MIT Technology Review | 08.30.2019

Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of biohackers say they are creating a knockoff of a...

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By Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 08.29.2019

The Trump administration wants to enable Customs and Border Protection officials to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants in its...