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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 Ben Fidler, Xconomy | 08.10.2015

To this point, the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been a science project, a research tool with enormous potential—and significant...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 08.08.2015
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Mother Nature has always been life's master architect, working off genetic blueprints that are fine-tuned from one generation...

By Boen Wang, The Daily Collegian | 08.07.2015
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The lab is like many others. Located at the end of a long hall on the top floor...

By Penny Yi Wang, ABC News | 08.07.2015

Thailand, once a top choice for would-be parents around the world who were seeking a surrogate, has narrowed the...

By Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. & Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., New England Journal of Medicine | 08.06.2015
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That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ability to treat and cure sick people is beyond contention...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 08.04.2015
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On an August morning in 2008, Tony Wyss-Coray sat in a conference room at the Veterans Affairs hospital...

By Devin Powell, Washington Post | 08.03.2015
Ethical and social concerns about modifying DNA include whether parents have a right to tweak the genetic makeup of their...
By Derek Ayeh, Voices in Bioethics | 08.03.2015

When confirmation was released that researchers from China had genetically modified human embryos for the first time ever, there was...