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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.

"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 Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan, Data & Society | 02.26.2018

Fairness in Precision Medicine is the first report to deeply examine the potential forbiased and discriminatory outcomes in...

A little girl holds adults hands as they balance walking.
By Suzanne Moore, The Guardian | 02.22.2018

Sometimes it seems there are so many ways to destroy women that the methods become invisible to us. There are...

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By Nithin Coca, Engadget | 02.22.2018

In July 2009, deadly riots broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China. Nearly 200 people died, the...

Pregnant Chinese woman lying down
By The Straits Times, The Straits Times | 02.22.2018

MELBOURNE (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Prospective Chinese mothers are increasingly travelling abroad for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and egg-freezing treatments...

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By Mark Brown, The Guardian | 02.21.2018

IVF treatment in the UK has become a money-making racket, according to a writer who found her own personal experience...

Baby
By Sarah Kowalski , Harper's Bazaar | 02.21.2018

"Where did your son get those beautiful, inky-black eyes?" asked my new friend Janet, a mom from my son's preschool...

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By Sharon Begley, STAT | 02.20.2018

DNA testing won’t guide dieters to the weight-loss regimen most likely to work for them, scientists reported on Tuesday. Despite...

Three small babies in their hospital beds with a nurse taking care of one of them.
By Daniel Hurst , The Guardian | 02.20.2018

A wealthy Japanese man at the centre of a “baby factory” scandal in Thailand has won sole parental rights to...