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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 Françoise Baylis and Janet Rossant, The Walrus | 02.12.2016

It reads like an all-caps typo from the technical manual that comes taped to the side of a new refrigerator. But CRISPR is...

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 02.12.2016
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The revolutionary gene-editing technology poised to reshape how researchers attack and prevent disease yesterday received a lukewarm reception...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 02.12.2016
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As interest in alternative medicines has risen, so has the number of clinics pushing the supposed benefits...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 02.11.2016
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Most Americans oppose using powerful new technology to alter the genes of unborn babies, according to a new poll...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 02.09.2016
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Sure Genomics, a startup based in Utah, launched a genetic testing service today that costs a whopping...

By Nina Liss-Schultz, Mother Jones | 02.08.2016
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On February 1, scientists from the United Kingdom's Francis Crick Institute got the okay to start research on...

By Marika Dobbin, Sydney Morning Herald | 02.08.2016
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A group of young South African women are due to arrive in Australia this month for an all-expenses...

By Eva Wiseman, The Guardian | 02.07.2016
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Georgina Williams was eight years into a city career, two years into a relationship, and 20 minutes into...