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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 Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.10.2015
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In 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-year-old Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish...

By Staff Reporter, Want China Times | 09.10.2015
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Chinese companies in the field of genetic testing are charging extremely low prices for their services in the...

By Judith Levine, Seven Days [Vermont] | 09.09.2015
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By the time you read this, Ohio may be the second state to outlaw abortion of a fetus...

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.08.2015
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The European Parliament today voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale...

By Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post | 09.08.2015
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In April 2015, a paper by Chinese scientists about their attempts to edit the DNA of a human...

By ABC, ABC Australia | 09.06.2015

It’s the fastest growing dimension of the multi-billion dollar fertility industry. Women in the 20s, 30s and 40s choosing to...

By Mark Lawrence Schrad, New York Times | 09.04.2015
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Villanova, Pa. — It was the most heart-wrenching moment of our lives, and all I could do was...

By Dawn Field, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.03.2015
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DNA testing and genomics is now so prevalent there are national genotyping platforms. Iceland became the first country...