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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 Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour | 04.05.2016

A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are...

By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 04.04.2016
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African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds...

By Shobita Parthasarathy, The Conversation | 04.04.2016
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The worlds of science, technology and patent law eagerly await the U.S. government’s...

By Anna Foster & Parmida Jafari, The Varsity [University of Toronto] | 04.04.2016
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Not too long ago, ‘designer babies,’ genome editing and gene therapy were futuristic and expensive ideas that were...

Painting of Sir Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics
By Fraser Nelson, The Spectator [UK] | 04.02.2016
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The only way of cutting off the constant stream of idiots and imbeciles and feeble-minded persons who help...
By Jeneen Interlandi, Scientific American | 04.01.2016
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Precision medicine sounds like an inarguably good thing. It begins with the observation that individuals vary in their...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.31.2016
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Medical testing done by the closely watched start-up Theranos was plagued by quality control problems that could have...

Children at Ulhasnagar train station (Wikimedia)
By Abby Rabinowitz, The Virginia Quarterly Review | 03.31.2016
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Ulhasnagar, India, is in that part of the world where things are made. The city is known for...