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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 Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 11.20.2015
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DNA can tell us all kinds of things.

Genetic information can be used to uniquely identify a specific...

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 11.20.2015
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Lost in the news about the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of genetically engineered salmon on Thursday...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 11.19.2015
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On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite...

By Andy Newman, The New York Times | 11.19.2015
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In the first decision in California to address a dispute over the fate of frozen embryos after a...

By Liz Stinson, WIRED | 11.18.2015
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“Here. Smell this.”

Effendi Leonard smiles and pushes a vial of pale, cloudy liquid toward me, like a...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Aeon | 11.17.2015
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For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce...

By Rahel Gebreyes, HuffPost Live | 11.17.2015
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A team of Chinese scientists raised eyebrows in April when they modified the genetic code of human embryos...

By CBS News [Canada], CBC News [Canada] | 11.16.2015

Commercial genetic testing designed to reveal athletic potential for sports is being called meaningless by a group of experts, who...