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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 Dusko Ilic, BioNews | 07.27.2015
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In their latest study, published in the Nature, Shoukrat Mitalipov and collaborators, including Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte...

By Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal | 07.26.2015
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How much is a human egg worth? The question is at the heart of a federal lawsuit brought...

By Namita Kohli, Hindustan Times | 07.26.2015
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It's early morning in the mid western state of Ohio in the US, but Michael Morris (name changed...

By Lauren McMah, Perth Now [Australia] | 07.26.2015
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THERE wasn’t much to being an anonymous sperm donor in the 1970s and ‘80s. You showed up, signed...

By Chris Woolston, Nature News | 07.24.2015
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Researchers often complain about inaccurate science stories in the popular press, but few air their grievances in a...

By Akshat Rathi, Quartz | 07.24.2015

Among all the forensic tools available to criminal investigators, DNA analysis is the only one that has consistently produced reliable...

By Rebecca Boyle, Future of Life Institute | 07.23.2015

In 2013, some 200 million humans suffered from malaria, and an estimated 584,000 of them died, 90 percent in Africa...

By Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy, Fusion | 07.23.2015

Imagine you’re a veteran who was critically wounded while serving your country. You’ve returned home, struggled through rehab, and now...