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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 Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 10.21.2015
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Individuals hoping to learn about their lineage or see how closely related they are to Neanderthals aren’t the...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 10.20.2015
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The consumer genome. You’ll hear that phrase enough the next couple years that it will gain both the...

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Nature News | 10.20.2015
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The sun has been pale for months here in Sumatra and the skies are grey all day —...

By Katie Worth, PBS Frontline | 10.19.2015
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When Muna Guled, her husband and youngest daughter were granted refugee status in America two-and-a-half years ago, their...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.19.2015
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Man’s best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project.

Scientists in China say they are the first...

By Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 10.16.2015
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During a periodic training on the university’s harassment policies today, I learned that my institution has added “genetic...

By Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science | 10.16.2015
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The story of filmmaker Michael Usry’s arrest seems like it could have come straight from an episode of...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 10.16.2015
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On their websites, next to glossy pictures of babies, some fertility clinics and egg-donor agencies refer to eggs...