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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 Michael White, Pacific Standard | 10.09.2015
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Having a child who suffers from a major genetic disease can be one of life's most challenging surprises...

By Martin Kaste, NPR | 10.09.2015

Over the summer, the Texas Forensic Science Commission, which sets standards for physical evidence in state courts, came to...

By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 10.08.2015

Gay or straight? A saliva test can predict the answer, and get it right 67 per cent of the time...

By Erin E. Murphy, The Daily Beast | 10.07.2015
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Plenty of things can go wrong in DNA testing in a run-of-the-mill case. Problems with interpreting the sample...

By Michael Slezak, New Scientist | 10.07.2015
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Your genes are no longer patentable in Australia. The country’s highest court found unanimously that two previous Australian...

By Staff, GenomeWeb | 10.06.2015
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's International Bioethics Committee called for a moratorium on germline genome...

By Meagan Flynn, Houston Press | 10.05.2015
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Five days after a Houston woman was raped by two men, she was driving down the street when...