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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 Janet Phelan, Activist Post | 12.25.2015
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We knew it was coming to this. The GMO revolution wasn’t going to stop at our dinner table...

By Dr. Filippa Lentzos, PLOS Blogs | 12.24.2015
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Synthetic biology is swimming in defense dollars. The most recent figures available on US trends in synthetic biology...

By Caroline Chen and Doni Bloomfield, Bloomberg | 12.23.2015
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In a single year, Rodger Novak’s gene-editing startup raised $89 million in venture funding, got $105 million to...

By Andrew Joseph, Stat News | 12.23.2015
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Precision medicine, in which drugs are matched to individual patients, has generated tons of buzz, from patient organizations...

By Janene Pieters, NL Times [Netherlands] | 12.23.2015
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The Healthcare Inspectorate is investigating two commercial clinics in Amsterdam and Rotterdam where doctors treat chronically ill patients...

By Yoon Min-sik, The Korea Herald | 12.23.2015
Untitled Document The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Seoul National University’s dismissal of Hwang Woo-suk was justifiable, marking an...
By Stephen Moss, The Guardian | 12.23.2015
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The first thing to say is that $100,000 is a lot of money. Especially for a dog. OK...

By Ken Kolker, WOOD | 12.23.2015
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MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — It started with an armed robbery at a Norton Shores Shell station in July...