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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 Jocelyn Kaiser, Science/AAAS | 04.11.2016
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A sweeping look at the DNA of more than half-a-million people has uncovered a surprise: A few individuals...

By Felicity Boardman, BioNews | 04.11.2016
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In February 2016, the UK's first licence to use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing techniques in human embryo research was granted...

By Shreejana Shrestha, Republica [Nepal] | 04.10.2016
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KATHMANDU, April 11: While the government has already decided the fate of surrogacy babies born or conceived before...

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By Marcy Darnovsky & George Church, Wall Street Journal | 04.10.2016

The development of technology that allows human genes to be edited has stirred tremendous excitement about the potential for treating...

By Marion Callahan, Bucks County Courier Times / The Herald | 04.09.2016
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Danette Peeples felt broken.

For more than two years, she looked at women who were pregnant and thought...

By Alana Cattapan & Françoise Baylis, The Star [Toronto] | 04.09.2016
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Every so often people complain about a shortage of sperm donors in Canada. For example, Liberal MP Anthony...

By Eram Agha, The Times of India | 04.09.2016
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ALIGARH: In spite of grieving the loss of their two unwed sons, a couple in their early 50's...

By Amy Schaeffer, The Inquisitr | 04.09.2016
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While most people aren’t extremely concerned about what gender child they have, it’s becoming more and more important...