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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 Tom Blackwell, National Post [Canada] | 12.13.2015
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Health Canada has made just two attempts to enforce its controversial fertility law since early 2014, mildly rebuking...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 12.12.2015
Untitled DocumentInstitutional review boards (IRBs), designed to serve as gatekeepers protecting patients from unethical human research practices, are under...
By Robin Marantz Henig, National Geographic | 12.11.2015

Some people are taller than others. Others have wider hips, lighter hair, longer toes, or flatter feet. No one disputes...

By Eleonore Pauwels & Jim Dratwa, Scientific American | 12.10.2015
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Kannapolis, North Carolina, is a desolate town, plagued by unemployment since the main employer, a textile mill, suddenly...

By Chloe Poston, Genes to Genomes | 12.09.2015

Last week, the National Academies of Science and Engineering joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Royal Society...

By Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Impact Ethics | 12.08.2015
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The development of CRISPR, a cut-and-paste gene editing technology, has pushed discussions of germline gene “therapy” from speculation...

By Editorial Board, Nature | 12.08.2015
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom...

By Daniel Callahan, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 12.08.2015
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It was great scientific research that first noted and then carefully followed the steady and dangerous increase of...