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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...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.17.2015
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Directors of the California stem cell agency this morning approved an $890 million plan for the next five...
By Rae Ellen Bichell, National Public Radio | 12.17.2015
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Despite striking ethnic disparities in the incidence and mortality of diseases like cancer and respiratory disease, minorities are...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 12.17.2015
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For Heidi Rehm, it looked like a straightforward case. Her lab at Partners Healthcare offers tests for...

By Alison Motluk, Canadian Medical Association Journal | 12.16.2015
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Not all Ontarians who are eligible for a funded cycle of in vitro fertilization (IVF) will necessarily get...

By Associated Press in Mexico City, The Guardian [UK] | 12.15.2015
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A Mexican state legislature has voted to close the door to foreign couples and gay men looking to...

By Rachel Emma Silverman, The Wall Street Journal | 12.15.2015
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Employers want workers to know what’s in their genes.

A handful of firms are offering employees free or...

Landscape photo shows an iceberg. Below the water, the iceberg continues to deepen.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New Yorker | 12.14.2015

Specter highlights exciting developments in the field of gene editing, but he is too quick to dismiss the shadow side...

By Oliver Moody, The Times | 12.14.2015
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The Church of England could agree to the genetic modification of human embryos, its medical ethics adviser has...