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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 Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | 08.30.2016

An American who fathered more than 30 children through sperm donations, including at least seven in Canada, has admitted he...

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By The Japan Times, The Japan Times | 08.30.2016

Two women in Japan became pregnant after receiving fertility treatment in which mitochondria collected from their ovaries were injected into...

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By Melinda Beck, Wall Street Journal | 08.29.2016

In two days of hearings next month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider if clinics offering stem-cell treatments...

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By Amrita Pande, The Hindu | 08.29.2016

On August 24, 2016, the Union Cabinet approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, banning commercial surrogacy in India. In essence...

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By Jessica Wapner, Scientific American | 08.29.2016

Genetic tests for cancer have come a long way since they first entered the clinic in 1995. Back then, mutations...

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By John Naughton, The Guardian | 08.28.2016

The BBC Reith Lectures in 1967 were given by Edmund Leach, a Cambridge social anthropologist. “Men have become like gods,”...

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By Marie Tae McDermott, New York Times | 08.27.2016

Five years ago, Sun Mi Stapel, a claims handler at a Dutch insurance company, began searching for her South Korean...

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By Sharmila Rudrappa, The Huffington Post | 08.26.2016

Feminist ethicists have been asking for deeper regulations of the surrogacy industry in India. But on August 24, 2016 the...