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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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"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 Gavin Evans, The Guardian | 03.02.2018

One of the strangest ironies of our time is that a body of thoroughly debunked “science” is being revived by...

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By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.01.2018

Back in 2004, when California's stem cell agency was little more than an idea in the minds of researchers, its...

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By Ellen Trachman , Above The Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 02.28.2018

In a massively ambitious project aimed at improving the health of its 3 million residents, the city of Dubai plans...

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By BBC, BBC | 02.28.2018

Guidance on how to start a family using a surrogate has been published for England and Wales for the first...

Sign says, "Arizona: The Grand Canyon State welcomes you"
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...

Red blood cells - 3 regular circular red blood cells and one crescent shaped sickle cell red blood cell.
By Mark Shwartz, Stanford Medicine | 02.28.2018

Once a month, David Sanchez, 15, comes to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for an infusion of donor red blood...

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By Matt Stevens, New York Times | 02.28.2018

It was basically an aside — an odd and interesting nugget in an interview with Barbra Streisand that otherwise dealt...