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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.

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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 Anna Salleh, ABC Science | 10.13.2015
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The very real possibility of creating embryos from stem cells raises ethical issues that need to be debated...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 10.12.2015
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Ancestry.com, a company that's all about the past, wants to tell you about your medical future. The amateur...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 10.12.2015
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The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

It...

By Eleanor Robertson, The Guardian | 10.12.2015
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Hold onto your ovaries folks, womb transplants are here. Ten UK women have been approved for the...

By Rebecca Dimond, BioNews | 10.12.2015
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Genomic medicine has advanced rapidly in recent...

By Vanessa Gruben, Ottawa Citizen | 10.11.2015
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After a week of uncertainty and some confusion, the Ontario Ministry of Health finally announced its policy on...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 10.10.2015
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This week, a team from the University of California, Los Angeles claimed to have found several epigenetic marks—chemical...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.09.2015
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The public uproar about high drug prices has focused on outlandish cases such as single pills jacked up...