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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 Rob Stein, NPR | 08.04.2016
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The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use...

By Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters | 08.03.2016
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This article is accompanied by 14 photographs by Carlos Garcia Rawlins, see the original article on Reuters...

By N.L., The Economist | 08.03.2016
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On August 3rd the British pharmaceutical company GSK said that it would charge €594,000 ($665,000) for a gene-therapy...

By Jeff Bercovici, Inc. | 08.01.2016
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More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a...

By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press | 08.01.2016
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NEW YORK — In a key advance for the study of depression, a comprehensive scan of human DNA...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.31.2016
Untitled Document The New York Times this weekend unveiled a dramatic, special report on immunotherapy to treat cancer, a field...
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By The Nation [Thailand], The Nation [Thailand] | 07.31.2016

SOME Thai 35 couples used surrogates to get children - including three Thai women married to spouses from Britain, Russia

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By Celine Cooper, Montreal Gazette | 07.31.2016
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As first reported in La Presse last week, a Quebec court recently handed down a decision in which...