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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 Angus Chen, NPR | 07.30.2016
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There are apps that can help people with diabetes keep track of their blood sugar and apps that...

By Nhan Dan, Vietnam Net Bridge | 07.29.2016
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According to Director of Hue Central Hospital Prof. Dr. Bui Duc Phu, this is among the first three...

By Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech | 07.28.2016

Gene editing biotech Editas Medicine ($EDIT) has signed a three-year R&D collab deal with Milan-based San Raffaele Telethon Institute for...

By Hannah Furness, The Telegraph [UK] | 07.28.2016

With its inimitable humour, love of tea and dedication to cricket in all weathers, there can be little doubt the...

By Donna Webeck, Daily Life [Australia] | 07.28.2016

Renee Golland, a mother of three, is no stranger to surrogacy. She knows firsthand both the blessing and the...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.28.2016

Health regulators in the United States are talked about as the best in the world, but a new study on...

By Natalie Schreyer, Mother Jones | 07.28.2016

The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a...

By Editorial, New Scientist | 07.27.2016

THERE’S a certain breed of techno-optimist who likes to talk about “the singularity” – a time when technology progresses so...