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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...

By Emma Green, The Atlantic | 05.16.2016

Over the past year, Indiana hasn’t exactly been a leader in anti-discrimination law. Last spring, the state faced massive protests...

By Andy Balmer, PLOS Synbio Community | 05.16.2016

Secrecy has long been a part of scientific and innovation practices. Being an ethnographer of laboratories, one occasionally comes up...

By Ian Johnston, The Independent [UK] | 05.15.2016
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The UK’s fertility watchdog is becoming “increasingly concerned” that private clinics are offering ‘add-on’ treatments which have not...

By Dara Mohammadi, The Guardian [UK] | 05.15.2016

As the small motorboat chugs to a halt, three travellers, wind-beaten from the three-hour journey along the Atrato river, step...

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian [UK] | 05.15.2016

A controversial Italian fertility doctor who won international fame for helping women in their 60s get pregnant has been arrested...

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By Caroline Framke, Vox | 05.15.2016

Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will...

By Ana Swanson, Wonkblog [The Washington Post] | 05.13.2016
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The first real interview I ever did was in 1999 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the white-stone city perched on...

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By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post | 05.13.2016

About 150 scientists assembled at Harvard on Tuesday for an off-the-record, no-media-allowed discussion of how to create, from scratch, an...