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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 Carrie Arnold, Mosaic Science | 07.18.2017

Bringing genetics into medicine leads to more accuracy, better diagnosis and personalised treatment – but not for all. Carrie Arnold meets

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By The Inquiry, BBC [features Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.16.2017

"This structure has novel features, which are of considerable biological interest." It was perhaps the greatest understatement of all time...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.14.2017

The premise behind Yes or No Genomics is simple: Genetic disease is typically caused by a variation in at least...

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By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 07.13.2017

You might call it the smallest movie ever made.

This week, a team of scientists report that they have successfully...

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By Matthew Cobb, New York Review of Books | 07.13.2017

In recent years, two new genetic technologies have started a scientific and medical revolution. One, relatively well known, is the...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 07.06.2017

Recently, a kerfuffle in the world of CRISPR illustrated just how easily money—and our perception of it—can impact science.

In...

Three cotton swabs lay inside of a DNA testing kit.
By Barbara J. King, NPR | 07.06.2017

In a new book, University of North Carolina, Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Marks says that racism in science is alive and...

Portrait photo of Jeff Sessions during a testimony.
By Susan R. Paisner, Washington Post [Letter to the Editor] | 07.04.2017

I suppose by this point I shouldn’t be surprised by anything the Trump administration does relating to science. But as...