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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 Associated Press | 03.27.2017

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into...

A woman's torso is shown laying on her side. She wears a white shirt and black pants. Hand is gently placed on the bottom of stomach.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 03.27.2017

Two women thought to be infertile have become pregnant using a technique that seems to rejuvenate ovaries, New Scientist can...

Inside a doctor's empty office.
By Jo MacFarlane, Daily Mail | 03.25.2017

A fertility treatment promoted as a more natural form of IVF is successful in just one in ten cases, leading...

Close up of a statue of Themis, the Greek Goddess of Justice, holding a scale in one hand. Sunshine falls and creates shadows in the statue crevices.
By César Palacios-González and María de Jesús Medina-Arellano, Oxford University Press | 03.24.2017

The birth of the the first child after a mitochondrial replacement technique has raised questions about the legality of such...

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By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 03.24.2017

Image by Darby Browning from Pixabay

The European Patent Office will grant patent rights over the use of CRISPR in

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By Luke Dormehl, Digital Trends | 03.24.2017

You’ve quite possibly heard of the Human Genome Project, the massive international science research project dedicated to sequencing the human...

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By Victoria Burnett, New York Times | 03.23.2017

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico — After years of longing and a mountain of expense, Michael Theologos became a father in December, when...

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By Louise Aronson, New York Times | 03.23.2017

You can’t tell by looking at me, but I’m a genetic mutant. My mother is, too, as were my aunt...