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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...

JCVI-syn3.0 [Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman/NCMIR/UCSD]
By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 03.24.2016
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Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent...

By Kate Lunau, VICE Motherboard | 03.23.2016
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When Feng Zhang was a kid growing up in Iowa, he saw Jurassic Park, like just about...

A human ovary is punctured by an operator who inserts a needle through the vaginal wall and into an ovarian follicle to remove an oocyte for storage.
By Press Association, The Guardian | 03.23.2016
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The number of women choosing to freeze their eggs to have babies later in life has soared, figures...

By AP, Bangkok Post | 03.23.2016
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An American-Spanish same-sex couple opened a high-profile custody battle on Wednesday for a baby girl born to a...

By Lindsay Kalter, Boston Herald | 03.23.2016
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A new study from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided new evidence of a genetic...

By Agence France-Presse, The Guardian | 03.22.2016
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A French court has given a one-year suspended jail sentence to a woman found guilty of defrauding two...

Two surgeons perform a hysterectomy (Wikimedia)
By Genevieve Field, The New York Times Magazine | 03.22.2016
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Ricky gazed up toward the pine trees as his mother, Cindy Preslar, pushed him along the village road...

By Andre Picard, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 03.22.2016
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"Gene patents no longer need to stand in the way of diagnosing life-threatening disease."

That’s how Alex Munter...