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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 Daniel Sarewitz, Nature Comment | 06.23.2015
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This year, several leading researchers have sounded warnings about the risks of using the CRISPR gene-editing technique to...

By Michael J. Joyner & Nigel Paneth, JAMA | 06.22.2015

Personalized or precision medicine maintains that medical care and public health will be radically transformed by prevention and treatment programs...

By Debora Spar, Marie Claire | 06.22.2015
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Nine years ago, when she was 28, TLC's Dare to Wear host, Tai Beauchamp, called off her engagement...

By Rachel Smolker, Truthout | 06.22.2015
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The new movie Jurassic World offers more than a few lessons relevant to the state of our world...

By Craig Holdrege, The Nature Institute | 06.22.2015
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In recent years scientists have developed powerful tools to create specific breaks in DNA sequences. They can then...

By Megan Cassidy, The Arizona Republic | 06.22.2015
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Recent admissions by the FBI involving data errors in calculating DNA probabilities are challenging the infallibility of DNA...

By Dan Koboldt, Mass Genomics | 06.19.2015
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The rise of next-generation sequencing has worked wonders for the field of genetics and genomics. It’s also generated...

By Philippe Sotto, Associated Press | 06.19.2015
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France's highest court tackled a sensitive subject Friday as parents challenged laws that effectively deny citizenship to surrogate...