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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 Rowan Hooper, New Scientist | 10.29.2015
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You have a 50-per-cent chance of carrying a gene that will radically change and then destroy your life...

By Yarden Katz, Boston Review | 10.28.2015
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Like much of our society, the American university is increasingly scrutinized through an economic lens. The value of...

By Nida Najar, The New York Times | 10.28.2015

NEW DELHI — The Indian government says it wants to prevent Indian women from becoming surrogate birth mothers for foreigners...

By Susan Gilbert, Bioethics Forum The Hastings Center | 10.28.2015
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Biomedical researchers are increasingly looking to Silicon Valley for access to human subjects, and Silicon Valley is looking...

By Cynthia M. Cale, Nature | 10.28.2015
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Earlier this month, the Texas Forensic Science Commission raised concerns about the accuracy of the statistical interpretation of...

By Harriet Meyer, The Guardian | 10.24.2015
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Women in their late 30s and in their 40s are being given false hope that freezing their eggs...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 10.23.2015
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The Akimel O’odham (Pima), a group of Native Americans from Arizona, have one of the highest rates of...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.21.2015
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The genetic testing company 23andMe became a Silicon Valley sensation by providing consumers with health and ancestry information...