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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 Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 03.07.2016

Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out. The non-profit company is where...

By Douglas Starr, Science/AAAS | 03.07.2016

On a Tuesday morning in Boise, biologist Greg Hampikian is on speakerphone with Christopher Tapp, an inmate at the Idaho...

By Beth Daley, New England Center for Investigative Reporting | 03.06.2016

Little Kate Summersgill certainly didn’t look like a child with Down syndrome — no upward slanting eyes or telltale flat...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.05.2016

In the expanding realm ruled by Randal J. Kirk, sliced apples don’t brown. Salmon grow twice as fast without swimming...

By Sean Captain, Fast Company | 03.04.2016
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Getting a full readout of your entire genetic sequence promises to radically alter how we monitor our health...

By Catherine Shanahan, The Irish Examiner | 03.04.2016

More than 80 children were born abroad as a result of surrogacy arrangements for Irish parents since 2011, according to...

By Adam Johnson, AlterNet | 03.04.2016

Last week the screenwriter for the 2006 satirical science fiction comedy Idiocracy came out and said his film’s nightmare vision...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 03.03.2016

Veritas Genetics, a Boston-based biotech company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, is claiming it can now sequence your entire...