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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 Kate Tuttle, Salon | 01.07.2016
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Buck v. Bell”

“I don’t want to be...

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Zocalo Public Square | 01.06.2016
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Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws...

By Jerry Bowyer, Forbes | 01.06.2016
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Like me, you’ve probably noticed that people tend to think of math as morally neutral. There’s the world...

By Brandy Zadrozny, The Daily Beast | 01.06.2016
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Backed by a well-known anti-choice lawyer, a surrogate mother-to-be in California is suing the genetic father (and intended...

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 01.06.2016
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KEEP them close. Women having IVF can now incubate embryos in their own bodies before they are implanted...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.06.2016
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Formidable capacity in genome sequencing, access to millions of patients and the promise of solid governmental support: those...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.06.2016
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Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving...

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