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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 Gabe Cohen, KOMO News | 03.17.2017

A Seattle fertility doctor says more patients are asking for twins because of Beyoncé and George Clooney, though doctors are...

Artistic structure that displays the letters representing DNA-bases ATCG, in a glass wall.
By Martina Cornel, New Scientist | 03.17.2017

A proposed law effectively allowing US employers to require workers to take DNA tests and hand over the results is

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A bare torso of a pregnant woman is centrally touched by four different hands.
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 03.16.2017

Britain's Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people to prevent...

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By Editorial, New Scientist | 03.15.2017

The gene-editing revolution continues to gather pace, but it is also throwing us curveballs. One is an unexpected technical hitch (see...

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By United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Population Fund | 03.15.2017

“I’ve been a priest for 25 years. During this time, I’ve met a lot of families ready to terminate their...

Patient lays horizontally. Image is a close up of a patient undergoing an eye procedure as a doctor touches the eye with an instrument.
By Denise Grady, New York Times | 03.15.2017

Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 03.15.2017

Over the course of seven years, Sezenia Tzeni endured seven rounds of in vitro fertilization. Typically, women undergo only three...

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By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center | 03.14.2017

In the past few weeks media outlets have been reporting on the release of Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and...