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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 Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post | 01.05.2016
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Which technology promises to most dramatically change our lives? A plausible answer is artificial intelligence -- see part...

By Roland Nadler, Law and Biosciences Blog | 01.04.2016
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Philosopher Russell Blackford argues that regulatory authorities should not allow “the tyranny of mere public opinion”...

By Lydia Ramsey, Business Insider | 01.04.2016
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A gene-editing company that hopes to start using a controversial new technique — which has so far only...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 01.04.2016
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The fight to determine who invented fundamental parts of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology appears to be headed...

By Anna Azvolinsky, The Scientist | 01.04.2016
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Despite a push for transparency in science, full data disclosure may be close to non-existent among published studies...

By Vandy Muong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post [Cambodia] | 01.02.2016
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Any day now, Cambodia’s first baby conceived in a test tube and implanted in a rented womb will...

By Carl Elliott, Hastings Center Report | 01.01.2016
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Several years ago, the University of Minnesota hosted a lecture by Alan Milstein, a Philadelphia attorney specializing in...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science/AAAS | 12.31.2015
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The red-hot genome editing tool known as CRISPR has scored another achievement: Researchers have used it to treat...