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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...

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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.11.2016
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At a time when genetic testing and genetically personalized treatments for cancer are proliferating, buoyed by new resources...

By Martin Enserink, Science/AAAS | 03.11.2016
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On 27 February, a court ordered the District of Columbia to pay $13.2 million to Santae Tribble, who...

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 03.10.2016
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The first uterus transplant in the United States has failed, and the organ was surgically removed on Tuesday...

By Ike Swetlitz, STAT | 03.10.2016
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Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit of uncomfortable advice: Embrace racial stereotypes...

By Corey Pein, The Baffler | 03.09.2016
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Narratives are made by the artful omission of facts. Never was this maxim more evident than in a...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Washington Examiner | 03.08.2016

A new generation of genetic engineering techniques, collectively known as "gene editing," is being hailed as a game-changer in the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.08.2016
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In an unusual move, a leading genetic testing company is making genetic information from the people it has...

By Steven Salzberg, Forbes | 03.07.2016

This week I’m calling out some recent headlines about medical “breakthroughs” that were wildly misleading. Even when the science itself...