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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 John Lauerman and Caroline Chen, Bloomberg Businessweek | 06.25.2015
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Tracy Antonelli and her three daughters suffer from thalassemia, a blood disorder that saps their strength, leaves them...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 06.25.2015
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The US House of Representatives is wading into the debate over whether human embryos should be modified to...

By Natasha Gilbert, Nature News | 06.25.2015
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A US company is the first to face penalties under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a law...

By Charis Thompson, Nature | 06.24.2015
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This autumn, researchers and other experts will come together to discuss the scientific, ethical and policy issues associated...

By Announcement, Committee On Science, Technology, and Law | 06.24.2015
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The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine are launching a major initiative to guide...
By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

By Katie Worth, Fusion | 06.24.2015
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Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the...