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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 Margaret Farenger, The Detroit News | 08.13.2015
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Last year, The Detroit News covered a disturbing story of health inequity. For children, Detroit is the deadliest...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2015
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With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.11.2015
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The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf...

By Dominic Basulto, Washington Post | 08.11.2015
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By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.11.2015
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Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg likes to make faces. But she doesn’t paint or sculpt them, precisely. She doesn’t even...

By Joshua A. Krisch, Vocativ | 08.11.2015

Even as Google and Apple promise employees egg-freezing privileges, the statistics behind in-vitro fertilization remain sobering. 75 percent of...

By Linda Geddes, The Independent | 08.10.2015
Untitled Document Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to...
By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 08.10.2015

The association between a woman's age and her fertility never seems far from the news but recently there has been...