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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 Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.15.2015
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The crimes and misdemeanors of science used to be handled mostly in-house, with a private word at the...

By Jeannie Wurz, SwissInfo [Switzerland] | 06.14.2015
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About 62% (61.9%) of Swiss voters have said yes to genetic screening of embryos before implantation in a...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.14.2015

STANFORD -- In the 1990s, Stanford's Irv Weissman created a unique way to grow and deliver blood stem cells to...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 06.13.2015
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The dominant view of bioethics frames issues in terms of autonomy and individual rights. A retrospective in the...

By Andrew Chung, Reuters | 06.12.2015
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A U.S. appeals court said on Friday that the discovery of a new form of prenatal testing that...

By MetroNews, MetroNews [Canada] | 06.12.2015

It was a bittersweet day for forensic science in 1998, when retired Quebec Court Justice Fred Kaufman released his report...

By Ari Shapiro, NPR | 06.11.2015
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In the U.S., surrogate parenting is widely accepted. Although no official figures exist, experts believe perhaps a thousand...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.11.2015
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California’s $3 billion stem cell agency has called a high-level meeting for next fall to examine a "red-hot"...