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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 Eliza Barclay, NPR | 10.05.2015

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Women concerned about their fertility can use a test to help decide whether they...

By Laurie Zoloth, Cosmos Magazine | 10.05.2015
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Super crops and healthy productive farm animals; mosquito populations controlled without pesticides; a cure for cancer … This...

By Rachael Rettner, Live Science | 10.05.2015
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Ten women in the United Kingdom may undergo womb transplants as part of an upcoming study, but the...

By Kristine Mattis, Counterpunch | 10.05.2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto...
By Susan Donaldson James, NBC News | 10.04.2015
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John R. Brown had been on medication for depression and bipolar disorder since high school, but with personal...

By Rob Ferguson, The Star | 10.01.2015

After years of pressure, Ontario has agreed to help infertile women under 43 get pregnant by paying for in vitro...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2015

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The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul...