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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 Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.14.2015

An expert advisory panel is urging Ontario to exclude the severely obese and anyone over 42 from its long-delayed plan...

By Kate Hilpern, The Independent | 09.13.2015
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Imagine discovering that your birth certificate is a lie and that your true biological father was a sperm...

By Ruth McKee, The Guardian [UK] | 09.12.2015

Couples who used sperm donors to conceive have had their parental status called into question after “widespread incompetence” in the...

By Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post | 09.11.2015
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This summer, a panel of genetics experts did something surprising: they put out a list of genetic tests...

By Steph Yin, Popular Science | 09.10.2015
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Almost six months ago exactly, a group of scientists published an editorial in Nature entitled “Don’t edit the...

By Associated Press, New York Post | 09.10.2015
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SORKHI, India — When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional...

By Matthew W. Hughey & Devon R. Goss, USAPP Blog [London School of Economics and Political Science] | 09.10.2015
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With the years of racially segregated sports now long behind us, many would consider that sports coverage is...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.10.2015
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It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists...