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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 George Annas, Boston University Today | 07.16.2015
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The fertility industry is big business. There are more than 450 fertility clinics in the United States alone...

By Kate Yandell, The Scientist | 07.15.2015
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Scientists have used two methods to generate patient-specific pluripotent stem cells with normal mitochondria for people with defects...

By Susana Medeiros, RegBlog | 07.15.2015
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Scientists are working on synthetically designed microorganisms that may soon produce everything from the fuel in your gas...

By Joshua Rothman, New Yorker | 07.14.2015
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The defining scene of “Sense8,” the new sci-fi drama on Netflix, comes about halfway through the first season...

By Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The New York Times | 07.13.2015
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Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and...

By Rebecca Strong, BostInno | 07.13.2015
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Today, there are no shortage of options when it comes to starting a family without traditional conception. But...

By Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed | 07.12.2015
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Last month, 30-year-old Alicia Routh got an email from the fertility clinic where she had previously donated dozens...

By Andrew Gelman & Kaiser Fung, The Daily Beast | 07.11.2015
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A few weeks ago in this space, we wrote about the bias toward sensationalist science reporting:  lazy...