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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 Claire Lee, The Korea Herald | 09.02.2015

South Korea’s Health Ministry is revising its guidelines for in vitro fertilization, discouraging medical professionals from transferring more than three...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 09.02.2015
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Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos so that...

By Chris Arsenault, Reuters | 09.01.2015

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilization of indigenous women in Canadian health centers during the 1970s was more...

By Lauren Wilson, News.com.au | 09.01.2015
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The future of dozens of families has been thrown into limbo after Nepal followed India and Thailand and...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.01.2015
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When Stephen Damiani’s one-year-old son Massimo suddenly lost his ability to crawl and developed other problems in 2009...

By Arit Udoh, BioNews | 09.01.2015
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Access to IVF may serve as 'fertility insurance' for women, making them more inclined to delay motherhood and...

By Kevin Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.01.2015
A state agency kicked off one of the world’s largest stem cell banks Monday in an effort to bolster research...
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.01.2015
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After dozens of unsuccessful treatments, Eric Dishman started to suspect that his illness was due to something other...