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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 Ian Johnston, The Independent | 08.11.2016
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When scientists announced in 2003 they had used a pioneering technique for the first time to create so-called...

By Lizzie Crocker & Abby Haglage, The Daily Beast | 08.10.2016
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In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed...

By Whet Moser, Chicago Magazine | 08.09.2016
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In June, 4.1 petabytes of cancer data went online on a new platform, run by the University of...

By Abby Goodnough, The New York Times | 08.09.2016
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Roslyn Lewis was at work at a dollar store here, pushing a heavy cart of...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 08.08.2016
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A biotech company called Seres Therapeutics got some bad news late last month: Its all-important infectious disease drug ...

Amid the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, immigration, sterilization, and other eugenic policies attempted to socially engineer Australia's gene pool.
By Natasha Miller, ABC [Australia] | 08.08.2016
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From enforced sterilisation to the fledgling foundations of education in Australia, eugenics left a dark stain on the...

By Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian | 08.06.2016
Untitled Document The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting...
By Christina Farr, Fast Company | 08.06.2016
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Gymnast Simone Biles's signature move: Two backflips in the air, with straight legs, and a blind landing after...