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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 South China Morning Post, South China Morning Post | 08.23.2016

At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what...

An individual holds a DNA model, with a concentrated face as if studying it.
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 08.22.2016

Harvard geneticist George Church is convinced everyone should have his or her genomes sequenced. Such tests would reveal the rare...

The picture is focused on a wooden chess game, with an individual in the background.
By Doug Hill, Boston Globe | 08.21.2016

America's relationship with technology has always been marked by excitement with an undercurrent of unease. We’re exhilarated by the powers granted...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.19.2016
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Visitors to the website of StemGenex, a La Jolla medical group, could be forgiven for thinking that...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.18.2016
Untitled Document Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists...
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By Nature Editorial, Nature Editorial | 08.17.2016

More than one million people have now had their genome sequenced, or its protein-coding regions (the exome). The hope is...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.17.2016
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A junior scientist formerly employed by the Broad Institute says the storied MIT-Harvard institution’s claim to have invented...

By Ziyaad Bhorat, openDemocracy | 08.17.2016
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In the last 70 years we’ve come a long way towards unraveling the building blocks of human life...