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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 Sarah Zhang, WIRED | 04.28.2016
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The breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 ar two of the famous sequences of DNA in the world...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 04.28.2016
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Aboard the International Space Station, six people are currently orbiting the planet at 17,000 miles per hour, taking...

By Editorial Board, The Chicago Tribune | 04.27.2016
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On Friday, scientists and policymakers meet in a Paris summit to grapple over the ethics and science of...

Francis deSouza joined Illumina in 2013 as president.
By Christine Farr, Fast Company | 04.27.2016
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A simple blood test to detect early signs of cancer. A noninvasive way to screen pregnancies for common...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 04.27.2016
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Molecule by molecule, the transformational genome-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9 is getting so many upgrades so quickly it’s like...

By Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura | 04.26.2016
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On August 17, 1920, the Topeka Daily Capital reported an exciting development: a new class of competition had been added...

By Oliver Holmes, The Guardian [US] | 04.26.2016
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A same-sex couple have won a legal battle in Thailand against the surrogate mother who gave birth to...

By Sarah Zhang, WIRED | 04.25.2016
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In a world with porous borders and wildly divergent surrogacy laws, making a baby can be a global...