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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...

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.18.2016
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The couple wanted a baby boy, but the male embryo they had chosen — the only one available...

By Todd Bookman, NPR | 04.18.2016
Untitled Document Erika Stallings' mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 28. When it came back in...
By Emily Waltz, Nature | 04.14.2016

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will not regulate a mushroom genetically modified with the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9.

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By Latin American Herald Tribune, Latin American Herald Tribune | 04.14.2016

MEXICO CITY – After countries such as India and Thailand restricted the “rent-a-womb” option for foreigners, Mexico is emerging as...

By Ben Westcott and Zhuang Pinghui, South China Morning Post | 04.13.2016

A Chinese medical team’s attempt to genetically alter human embryos to make them resistant to HIV has raised questions in...

By Jacob S. Sherkow, Nature | 04.13.2016
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Last month, in an extraordinary dispute before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), university lawyers laid out...

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2016

2014 saw the birth of more babies than ever who got their start in the petri dish of a fertility...

By Jason Koebler, Motherboard [VICE] | 04.12.2016
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The gene-editing future of medicine is fast approaching—or at least it’s beginning to feel that way—but one of...