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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 Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.23.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 07.22.2015

23andMe bills itself as a company that “democratizes personal genetics” for the world. And that description’s not necessarily all that...

By Aisha Farooq, DESIblitz.com [UK] | 07.22.2015
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Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers is a compelling tale of surrogacy and late parenthood.

Set in...

By Wendy Kramer, Huffington Post | 07.22.2015
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A cultural phenomenon is growing these days in the world of gamete donation. The voices of the donor-conceived...

By Caroline Chen, Bloomberg Businessweek | 07.21.2015
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Google Inc.’s Calico, a biotechnology firm created by the search-engine giant to study aging and related diseases, will...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 07.21.2015
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The clock is ticking for experts charged with designing a US government programme to collect genetic, physiological and...

By Charlotte Alter, Diane Tsai, & Francesca Trianni, Time | 07.16.2015
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Egg freezing has been hailed as a game-changer for women, an “insurance policy” to revitalize waning fertility, a...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Nation | 07.16.2015

On April 18, scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, published an article in the obscure open-access journal Protein...