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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.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 07.07.2015
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The computing resources needed to handle genome data will soon exceed those of Twitter and YouTube, says a...

By Jacob Corn, Innovative Genomics Initiative blog | 07.06.2015
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It’s been a rather wild ride in the last month, which hasn’t left much time for blog posts. But...

By Michelle Munz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 07.05.2015

The video is about 30 seconds long. Dawn Guhe has watched it at least 100 times. It captures the first...

By Amrit Dhillon, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2015
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Two years after it was first mooted, India is close to finalising a draft bill to regulate the...

By Philippe Sotto, Time | 07.03.2015
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France’s highest court has granted legal recognition to surrogate children, in a major turnaround that will make their...

By Neetu Chandra Sharma, India Today | 07.03.2015
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A bunch of 22 pregnant women seems anxiously waiting to deliver, though without any other emotion attached to...

By Betty Rollin, KQED Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | 07.02.2015


A promising new medical technology has the potential to cure many genetic diseases by deleting or replacing defective...

By Anna Nowogrodzki, MIT Technology Review | 07.02.2015
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For 51 years, newborn babies have gotten a heel-prick test in which their blood is screened for dozens...