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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 Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 11.09.2015
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to privately held gene testing company DNA4Life over the...

By David Barrett, The Telegraph | 11.08.2015
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British police risk being overwhelmed with DNA and fingerprint requests from European Union countries if MPs decide to...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.06.2015
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An intense debate has flared over whether the federal government should fund research that creates partly human creatures...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 11.06.2015
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It’s the latest hope offered to many patients at major cancer research centers: Let us sequence your tumor...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 11.06.2015
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On 11 August 2014, an anonymous user of a popular infertility forum typed a message. “I am 47...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.05.2015
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The biotechnology startup Editas Medicine intends to begin tests of a powerful new form of gene repair in...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.05.2015
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Biologist Ethan Bier runs a laboratory at the University of California, San Diego where fruit flies are used...

By Stephanie M. Lee, Buzzfeed | 11.05.2015
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In late October, genetic testing startup 23andMe did something unusual: It issued a transparency report that disclosed how...