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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 Gordon Atherley, Voice America | 03.01.2016

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Dr. Marcy Darnovsky is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/. She describes...

By Greg Miller, The Atlantic | 03.01.2016

The crime was brutal. On November 4, 1989, after a night of heavy drinking, David Scott Detrich and a male...

By Stuart Newman, HuffPost Science | 02.29.2016

New genetic technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and synthetic biology are leading us to entirely new definitions of disease. Now...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 02.29.2016

“Welcome back, you two,” says assistant FBI director to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. He unlocks the door to Mulder’s...

By Mary Ann Mason, Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.29.2016

This past fall, I gave a talk on work-and-family issues to a class of female students in the M.B.A. program...

By John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2016
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Paul Knoepfler is not a scientist given to alarmism, but it’s pretty clear from his informative new book...

By Catherine Bennett, The Guardian | 02.27.2016
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Along with thousands of babies, one of the undoubted benefits of assisted reproductive technology, or ART, has been...

By All Things Considered, NPR, All Things Considered, NPR | 02.26.2016

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UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Dr. Wieck, you referred to novel National Socialist measure introduced...