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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 Editorial, Nature | 08.18.2015
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Science is not just for scientists these days. Going on a scuba-diving holiday this summer? Share the temperature...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 08.17.2015
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Genetics has advanced to the point that we can sequence a person's genome, outlining their entire genetic...

By Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Journal | 08.17.2015
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About one out of five couples who come to HRC Fertility, a network of fertility clinics in Southern...

By Vidya Venkat, The Hindu | 08.16.2015
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This week, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) uploaded a slightly modified draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill...

By Patrice Wendling, Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network | 08.14.2015
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Fertility clinics are quick to tout their success rates to attract patients, but are they doing enough to...

By Margo Kaplan, The Washington Post | 08.14.2015
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Last month, my husband and I signed forms donating an embryo we had conceived to medical research. Meanwhile...

By CTK, Prague Daily Monitor | 08.13.2015
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Prague, Aug 12 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has the first case of an infant who was born...

By Kevin Loria, Business Insider [Australia] | 08.13.2015

The real reason that we’ve never cloned a human, according to George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University, is...