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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 Jim Kozubek, Undark | 11.03.2017

A cutting-edge study foreshadows what genetic science might bestow to human health, but the public is rightfully wary.

HARVARD MEDICAL...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 11.01.2017

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Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It’s a disease that runs in...

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By Osagie K. Obasogie , Scientific American | 11.01.2017

What would it mean to embrace new gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 at the very moment white supremacy is, once again, on...

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By Zoe Williams, The Guardian | 10.30.2017

In Europe, 77% of IVF treatments fail – and doctors have suggested that famous people should be more honest about...

Two surgeons in uniform perform surgery on a patient, with tools in their hands and looking down at the patient.
By Elaine Schattner, Forbes | 10.29.2017

A horrifying story broke last week about a 36-year-old Oregon woman who had elective surgery to remove her uterus and...

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By Amy B. Wang, Washington Post | 10.28.2017

Jessica Allen was already the mother of two boys when she decided to become a surrogate.

The pay she would...

Microscopic image of IVF process
By Hille Haker, Leaps Magazine | 10.26.2017

Over the last few decades, the international community has issued several bioethical guidelines and legally binding documents, ranging from UN...

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By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, New York Times | 10.26.2017

The members of my family share a number of traits, but not one of them looks quite like me.

Many...