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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 Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI | 08.26.2015
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In a unanimous decision, a Washington appeals court has upheld a $50 million verdict in favor of a...

By Bonnie Steinbock, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 08.26.2015
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The Ohio legislature is expected to approve a bill this fall that would make it illegal for doctors...

By Stephen Corry, Truthout | 08.25.2015
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Iconoclasm - questioning heroes and ideals, and even tearing them down - can be the most difficult thing...

By Mic Wright, The Next Web | 08.25.2015
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Blah blah don’t be evil blah blah blah. At some point, Google’s unofficial motto became like the message printed...

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.24.2015
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In the opening to We Have Never Been Modern (1993) sociologist Bruno Latour describes a newspaper report on...

By Carson Byrd, USAPP | 08.24.2015
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It has been 15 years since then President Bill Clinton and leading scientists of the Human Genome Project...

By Staff, Broadly [VICE] | 08.24.2015
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In 2014, tech companies like Apple and Facebook added egg freezing to their healthcare packages. The procedure has...

By Ellie Kincaid, Tech Insider | 08.24.2015
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Like many people of her generation, Miriam Zoll wanted to wait to have kids. She had seen headlines about 45-year-old...