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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.16.2016
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The meter is running like mad on the dispute over key patents on CRISPR genome editing. In its...

By Dyllan Furness, Digital Trends | 08.15.2016
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Right now, for just $140, you can get your hands on one of the most powerful gene-editing tools...

By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 08.15.2016
Athletes are keeping their distance from a genetic test for concussion risks Boosters have billed it as the cheek swab that...
By Sarah Zhang, WIRED | 08.15.2016
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WHAT DO YOU when you’re so clearly winning? When you’ve crushed your competitors and left them fighting over...

By John M. Hein, The Sacramento Bee | 08.13.2016
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Dramatic advances in science and technology are leading us into an unknown future with little citizen awareness, and...

By Aleszu Bajak, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2016
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When his son Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at six months of age, Doug Melton was...

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian | 08.12.2016
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There is something like gold flowing through the veins of 100-year-old Maria Tegas, and everyone wants a piece...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 08.11.2016
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Australian bioethicist Rob Sparrow has written extensively on topics ranging from political philosophy and minority rights to the...