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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 Margaret Somerville, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 12.21.2015
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“Editing” the human germline – the genes passed on from generation to generation that have evolved naturally over...

By Ludwig Burger, Reuters | 12.21.2015
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Bayer will spend 325 million euros ($353 million) on research into a promising new gene editing technology as...

By Meg Urry, Nature | 12.21.2015
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By Daniela Hernandez, Fusion | 12.21.2015
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Type the word scientist into Google image search, and you’ll overwhelmingly get a bunch of white faces in...

By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee | 12.20.2015
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The two calves that grace a muddy pen on the UC Davis campus will never grow horns typical...

By Eric Jaffe, City Lab | 12.18.2015
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Whether intelligence is more the product of nature or nurture has long fascinated American social scientists and the...

By Kashmir Hill, Fusion | 12.18.2015
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In 2012, Silicon Valley millionaire Ravi Kumra was murdered during a home-invasion robbery. During the investigation of the...

By Jack Stilgoe and Sarah Hartley, The Guardian [UK] | 12.17.2015
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In October this year, we were both called as witnesses to the House of Lords Science and Technology...