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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...

A woman doctor leans over a woman patient's bed, engaged in a conversation The patient has a blood pressure maching attached to her arm.
By Paul Bentley and Sara Smyth, Daily Mail | 05.03.2017

Fertility clinics are today accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to donate eggs for cash and free treatment...

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By Todd Kuiken, Slate | 05.03.2017

Is that something we’re comfortable with?

Sure, the U.S. military has deployed the power of biology and nature before. For...

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By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 05.03.2017

GlaxoSmithKline says it has treated a child with Strimvelis, its gene therapy for immune deficiency.

A child in Europe has...

Microscopic image of an egg being fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection
By Haroon Siddique, The Guardian | 05.02.2017

HFEA says it has contacted clinics accused of offering women on low incomes free IVF treatment if they donate eggs

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By The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Japan News | 04.28.2017

The government plans to drastically revise its basic policy on conducting research on human embryos, in an effort to implement...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 04.28.2017

Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care – an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health...

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By Aaron Panofsky, Cultural Anthropology | 04.28.2017

This article is part of the series Evil Infrastructures.

What happens when white supremacists take genetic ancestry tests (GAT)...

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By Gina Bellafante, New York Times | 04.27.2017

Dr. John Zhang, a well-known specialist in reproductive medicine who runs the New Hope Fertility Center out of a vast...