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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 Jessica Cussins, Kennedy School Review | 12.07.2015

Now that we have the power to permanently alter humanity, should we?

This was the question at the heart of...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 12.05.2015
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At the heart of the debate over the use of CRISPR technology for gene-editing is the human embryo...

By Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera America | 12.04.2015

An international group of scientists and ethicists said this week that it would be “irresponsible” to use a powerful tool...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 12.04.2015

An international summit on human gene editing drew hundreds of people to Washington DC for three days this week, with...

By Charis Thompson, Impact Ethics | 12.04.2015
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An International Summit on Human Gene Editing, co-hosted by the US National Academy of Sciences and National...

By Fergus Walsh, BBC | 12.03.2015

An international meeting of leading scientists has said it would be "irresponsible" to allow the creation of genetically altered humans...

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 12.03.2015
An international group of scientists meeting in Washington called on Thursday for what would, in effect, be a moratorium on...
By John Markoff, The New York Times | 12.03.2015
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SEATTLE — Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of...