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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...

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"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 Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.07.2018

Britons are broadly in favour of rewriting the genetic code of human embryos to prevent children from inheriting devastating diseases...

A grainy, grayscale image showing the process of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). A slender needle tip touching the edge of an egg, held by pipette.
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 03.06.2018

Women are unfairly paying the price for men's falling fertility,  scientists have warned.

Mens sperm counts have reduced by...

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By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.06.2018

On Tuesday, 23andMe announced it will start telling customers of its mail-in DNA-testing kit about three mutations in the breast-cancer...

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By Jessica Pierce, New York Times | 03.06.2018

Why, people want to know, did Barbra Streisand decide to clone Samantha, her coton de tulear? What would compel someone...

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By Joel Michael Reynolds, Aeon Ideas | 03.05.2018

When I was three years old, I was told that my brother Jason had a 95 per cent chance of...

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By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 03.05.2018

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has...

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By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 03.04.2018

“Three parent babies!!!!” was a shock-horror headline across the world when the UK was debating mitochondrial replacement therapy a couple...

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By Sujatha Byravan , The Hindu | 03.03.2018

The Delhi High Court recently ruled against discrimination in health insurance by United India Insurance Company involving a person with...