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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 Joseph Stramondo, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog | 04.25.2016
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According to a recent article in the popular press, a California based biotech firm, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, has...

Elizabeth Parrish, CEO, BioViva USA Inc.
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 04.25.2016
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Last year, Elizabeth Parrish, the CEO of Seattle-based biotech firm BioViva, hopped a plane to Colombia, where she...

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 04.25.2016
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For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public...

By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 04.23.2016
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American regulators have allowed the cultivation and sale of two crops modified with the gene-editing technique known as...

By Ashley Dawson, Jacobin | 04.22.2016
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Puerto Rico’s first Zika case was confirmed in December, and the island’s governor declared a public health emergency...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 04.22.2016
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One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has launched a massive effort to compile genome sequences and health...

By Sarah Emerson, Motherboard [VICE] | 04.22.2016
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Silicon Valley wants to get women pregnant.

From period apps that predict a woman’s most fertile days to...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 04.22.2016
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It is precision medicine taken to the extreme: cancer-fighting vaccines that are custom designed for each patient according...