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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.

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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 RT [Russia Today], RT [Russia Today] | 04.22.2016

Japanese scientists have been given the go-ahead to start modifying fertilized human eggs. However, they will not be creating designer...

By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post | 04.21.2016
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“Funny tensions in science.” That’s a phrase from the lips of Eric Lander, president and founding director of...

By Brian Alexander, MIT Technology Review | 04.21.2016
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Nonie Hickle’s hair is coal-dark. Her husband, Vincent, marvels at it. He points to it and says, “No...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 04.20.2016
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For all the hoopla about CRISPR, the revolutionary genome-editing technology has a dirty little secret: it’s a very...

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By Seung Lee, Newsweek | 04.19.2016
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Kuwait is set to become the first country in the world to require all its citizens, visitors and...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 04.19.2016
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At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Fredrik Lanner is preparing to edit genes in human embryos. It’s the...

Wikimedia: "The Princeton University Class of 1879, which included Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney, Daniel Barringer, and Charles Talcott."
By Barron Lerner, Forbes | 04.19.2016
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Princeton University’s decision to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name on a series of buildings and programs is the...

By Sital Kalantry, Women's eNews | 04.19.2016
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You may have never heard of the word PRENDA. But the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held...