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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.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Drew Endy and Laurie Zoloth, DSpace@MIT | 05.10.2016

At Harvard today an invitation-only group of mostly scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, ~150 in total, met to discuss if and...

A woman and child stand in front of Sri Harmandir Sahib aka the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. (Pixabay)
By Andrew Marszal, The Telegraph [UK] | 05.10.2016
Untitled Document An Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 72 after undergoing fertility...
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.07.2016
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What does the American public think about human germline enhancement? A survey of 17 polls taken over the...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.06.2016

A treatment now pending approval in Europe will be the first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure for...

UniQure's Glybera aka alipogene tiparvovec.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.05.2016
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The most expensive drug in history is a money loser that’s not reaching patients. In fact, it’s only been...

Daniel Kevles, Professor Emeritus of History, History of Medicine & American Studies, and Adjunct Professor, Law School, Yale University
By Emily McManus, TED Ideas | 05.05.2016
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An exploration of the ethics around CRISPR’s gene-snipping technology yields new insights on how to harness biotechnology that’s powerful enough to alter humanity.

In...

By Eric Boodman, STAT | 05.04.2016
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At what point should a scientist stop doing experiments on a human embryo in a Petri dish?

For...

By Patrick Monahan, Science/AAAS | 05.04.2016
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It’s easy to obey a rule when you don’t have the means to break it. For decades, many...