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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 Tereza Hendl, The Conversation | 08.23.2015

Australian guidelines for the ethical use of IVF allow selecting a child’s sex for medical reasons. But draft guidelines...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 08.22.2015
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CLEVELAND — Opening a new front in the abortion wars, abortion opponents are pushing Ohio to make it...

By The Economist, The Economist [Cites CGS] | 08.22.2015

IN THE summer of 2005 Karen Aiach and her husband received heartbreaking news about their four-month-old daughter, Ornella: she had...

By Diana Kwon, Scientific American | 08.21.2015

Twelve years ago, members of the Havasupai Tribe entered into a legal battle with Arizona State University, over the ways...

By Matthew W. Hughey, The Huffington Post | 08.20.2015
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From 22-25 August, sociologists from around the nation and world will descend upon the Windy City of Chicago...

By Selina Lum, The Straits Times [Singapore] | 08.20.2015

The "difficult" issue of whether the mother of a baby conceived in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) sperm mix-up can claim...

By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun | 08.19.2015
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he College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. is grappling with regulatory and accreditation issues for a private...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.19.2015
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The CEO of the world’s leading DNA sequencing company says he knows how to finally get consumers interested...