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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...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.31.2015

Genetic counselor Emily Hardisty sat across from three salespeople from the San Diego biotech company Sequenom two weeks ago. The...

By Dhvani Mehta and Yashaswini Mittal, The Wire | 08.31.2015

On August 24, it was reported that the former Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, had written to the Prime Minister...

By Carina Storrs, CNN | 08.30.2015
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A person may not have to "see color" to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people...

By Robin Marantz Henig, NPR | 08.28.2015
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With egg freezing being touted as a way for women to potentially expand future childbearing options, the viability...

By Matthew S. Bajko, Bay Area Reporter | 08.27.2015
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As a bill protecting the rights of same-sex parents who use sperm and egg donors advances in Sacramento...

By JTA, The Forward | 08.27.2015
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Nepal’s Supreme Court has issued an injunction to stop women from carrying surrogate pregnancies, depriving Israel same-sex couples...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 08.26.2015
Untitled Document A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the...
By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 08.26.2015
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Chinese stem-cell scientists have welcomed long-awaited measures that, state media claim, will rein in rogue use of stem...