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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 Lizzie Wade, Wired | 09.30.2015

When the geneticist Gonçalo Abecasis stood up in front of a group of scientists in 2007 and proposed sequencing 1,000...

By BBC, BBC | 09.30.2015

Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure...

By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science | 09.29.2015
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Yesterday, the Broad Institute Foundry, a synthetic biology laboratory at MIT, announced its new contract with DARPA. The...

By Rich Wordsworth, Motherboard | 09.29.2015

In 2002, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, a deaf lesbian couple from America, made headlines when they chose to conceive...

By Cameron Scott, Healthline | 09.29.2015
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Hacking the human genome has long made for great science fiction theater because it has always seemed fantastically...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 09.29.2015
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Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have produced an unexpected byproduct — tiny pigs that a leading Chinese genomics institute will...

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hastings Center Report | 09.28.2015
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On April 3, 2015, a group of prominent biologists and ethicists called for a worldwide moratorium on human...

By J. Wesley Judd, Pacific Standard | 09.28.2015

Consensus is not a word used when talking about assisted reproductive technology, or ART, for short. In the past, we've reported...