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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...

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"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 Michael J. de la Merced & Chad Bray, The New York Times | 05.23.2016

The German industrial giant Bayer has finally revealed its $62 billion takeover bid for Monsanto as it seeks to create...

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By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 05.22.2016

On May 10, about 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and others held an invitation-only event at Harvard. Organisers told invitees not to...

By Reniqua Allen, The New York Times [Opinion] | 05.21.2016
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It all started with these little chocolate colored pink and blue ceramic babies. They were a strange Christmas...

By Shin Sung-Sik, Kang Ki-Heon, and Esther Chung, Joongang Daily [South Korea] | 05.20.2016

The use of fresh egg cells in stem cell research, banned in Korea for years, is being hotly debated by...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 05.19.2016
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The drug industry blames the Food and Drug Administration for driving up the research and development costs of new...

By Tanya Lewis, The Scientist | 05.19.2016

A Senate committee is today (May 19) taking a first look at a bill that would extend a federal ban...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.18.2016

A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos...

By Kelly Crowe, CBC News | 05.18.2016

Would you read a story if this was the headline: "New study raises questions about an experimental treatment that might...