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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 Hal Hodson, New Scientist | 06.19.2015
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"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you...

By Marianne Lavelle, Science | 06.18.2015
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The leader of the world's largest Christian faith might succeed in doing something that many experts have failed...

By BBC, BBC | 06.18.2015

Today scientists are using genetic markers from DNA to build up a picture of an offender's face, a process known...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 06.18.2015
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The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 06.17.2015
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After years of infertility, Angel and Jeff Watts found a young egg donor to help them have a...

By Karthika Muthukumaraswamy, The Huffington Post | 06.16.2015
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Up until recently, those in the technology industry and those conducting genomic research would have been considered strange...

By Renate Lindeman, Washington Post | 06.16.2015
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Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 06.15.2015

More than a decade after a young man committed suicide during a psychiatric clinical trial at the University of Minnesota—and...