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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 Editorial, Nature | 07.01.2015
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The revelation in April that scientists had edited the genome of a human embryo — an inevitable development...

By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian | 06.30.2015
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The governor has signed a bill that would expand access to DNA testing for people hoping to prove...

By Sarah Dingle, Daily Life [Australia] | 06.30.2015
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Something happened over the weekend in Melbourne which has never happened anywhere before in the world. This is the future...

By Britt E. Erickson, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.29.2015
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A little more than a decade after scientists first unraveled the human genome, some researchers are trying to...

By Rebecca Carr, BioNews | 06.29.2015
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Last month, in a judgment that was hailed as the first of its kind, High Court judge Ms...

By Alice Maynard, BioNews | 06.29.2015

Untitled Document I served on the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) as a lay member from 2006 to 2012, and found...

By Douglas Quan, Montreal Gazette | 06.25.2015
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Biological clocks ticking, some women are approaching British Columbia’s family lawyers with a dilemma: They want to have a...

By Press Release, kaine.senate.gov | 06.25.2015
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Carper...